Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

[BEC111]

After nearly 5 years my battery is starting to lose its fizz. I'm in Sport mode about 95% of the time. I used to get around 6 miles per bar and now I'm down to about 4. Trying to decide whether to replace it for $1000+ or get the extender for about half that and hope that it holds on for a while longer.My rides are usually 25-35 miles. When I've gone 40 I come home in the red.

I’m glad I traded in my SL1 for an SL2 before the battery health had really declined. It was at 90%. After trade in my SL2 cost $2600 so using wishful thinking math I can make believe the new bike actually cost $1600.

 

[Cycologist]

The most I've gotten out of my range extender on my SL1 is 36 miles. This was running on Eco mode at 40/40 most of the time.
I have the bike set to discharge the RE first.

It's very temperature dependent and it's crazy how much of a difference it makes. On a really cold day, I've only gotten about 20 miles out of it.