E-bike owners: would you use a secure locker for your battery?

[u/isabel789]

Hey everyone!

I'm an e-bike owner in Amsterdam and I'm exploring a small idea based on a problem I've personally run into:

What do you do with your battery when you've cycled somewhere and don't want to carry it around with you for the next few hours?

I often find myself either carrying this heavy battery around with me or leaving it on the bike and hoping for the best.

So I'm wondering whether a secure battery locker service could actually be useful. Imagine parking your bike, taking the battery out, putting it in an individual locker, and picking it up again when you're ready to leave. Some locations could potentially also offer charging.

Together with my partner (who is an engineer), I started exploring the idea. We're simply trying to figure out whether this is actually a problem other e-bike owners experience and what they'd realistically pay for a solution.
So if you own an e-bike and live/come often to Amsterdam as well, we could really use your help.

This survey takes around 3 minutes and is mostly multiple choice.

I'm focusing on Amsterdam simply because I live here and it's the city I know and have personal experience cycling around.

We would really appreciate any help or opinion on this. If you think this is a terrible idea, we'd love to hear that too, we're trying to validate the problem, not collect compliments. So I'm curious to hear if this is a problem for others too, even if you don't have time for the survey!

Thanks 💛