We shopped a week or two at local bike shops. I’m not much for shopping. Kinda hard to find them actually. Similar age to you. Not hard core bicyclers at all. Bar hop on them mostly. Got tired of being 15-20 miles away dreading ride home with a day of cocktails so it basically limited how far we went. Ebikes definitely the answer to that problem plus allows my wife to keep up with me too. Anyway we love our pair of Trek Allant+8S’s. Supposedly rated just under 80 miles on a charge. Probably not true but I bet it’s 65 or 70. We try to limit use of battery until ride home to get some actual exercise and go 20+ mph easily if need to on way home. But mostly a casual stress free 15. They are heavy to mount on rack so not for weenies. Ours with bags/rear racks are about 60# each. Need a pretty stout rack to haul them with too.
Your right I think. Ours only assists if you peddle. 20% 40% 60% 80% essentially depending on how many times you click the bottom. 80% is virtually effortless even up a steep hill.
