Mr. Coffee
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Well, I did say "nearly all". And yes, from the perspective of someone on the West Coast of North America, Stockholm is pretty darned flat, though Oslo is not.Not really. Oslo? Stockholm? Scandinavia proper (Norway and Sweden) is not flat!
Now, let's talk Central Europe: Alps (including Dinaric), Carpathians, Sudeten, Vosges and many other mountain ranges.
(If we visit south of Europe, it becomes very hilly: Pyrenees, Apenines, Balkans and let us talk Greece, for instance).
I agree to your general thought: "Why should Europeans need more than 250 W nominal?" The e-MTB is the European thing. The first modern e-MTB ever was conceived in Switzerland for an American company by name Specialized
Certainly Warsaw, Berlin, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Toulouse, and Bordeaux are very flat cities.
Yes, there are mountain ranges in Northern Europe and some hilly countryside, but the urban areas are, again from the perspective of someone from the West Coast, mostly in flat places. I mean, Los Angeles basically is bisected by a mountain range, and on the northern edge of Vancouver there are multiple ski areas (though not really great skiing, but it is still remarkable that you can take a city bus to a tram and cut some turns).