I live in a city with that kind of temperature variability and I commute by ebike about nine months of the year since I can’t get studded tires for my bike and my route just isn’t safe without them. That said, I’m only traveling about 40 minutes each way (~7.5 miles) - I’ve done rides of 90 minutes each way and there’s absolutely nights I want to keep riding rather than going straight home, but there’s also nights I’m happy to get home and have a bowl of soup. That said, I know of at least one lemming who does that kind of commute but I think she lives somewhere with less extreme winters and I think it’d be weird to tag her for this lol.
Also at that kind of distance you’re looking at range issues if traveling at full pedal assist on most ebikes if you can’t charge at work.
… And this is assuming your car commute time isn’t due to traffic gridlock. Although I assume you’d mention it if you lived somewhere like that.
I live in a city with that kind of temperature variability and I commute by ebike about nine months of the year since I can’t get studded tires for my bike and my route just isn’t safe without them. That said, I’m only traveling about 40 minutes each way (~7.5 miles) - I’ve done rides of 90 minutes each way and there’s absolutely nights I want to keep riding rather than going straight home, but there’s also nights I’m happy to get home and have a bowl of soup. That said, I know of at least one lemming who does that kind of commute but I think she lives somewhere with less extreme winters and I think it’d be weird to tag her for this lol.
Also at that kind of distance you’re looking at range issues if traveling at full pedal assist on most ebikes if you can’t charge at work.
… And this is assuming your car commute time isn’t due to traffic gridlock. Although I assume you’d mention it if you lived somewhere like that.