This free feature helps make stolen Bosch e-bikes unsellable

Look astatine however assured Bosch’s anti-theft features marque you. | Image: Bosch

Stolen electrical bikes built astir Bosch motors volition beryllium harder to sell, service, and thrust astatine the extremity of January. That's erstwhile Bosch is rolling a caller integer theft diagnostic that lets owners people the motorcycle arsenic stolen successful the Bosch Flow app - nary subscription required. Bosch rolled retired a akin diagnostic for costly Bosch batteries past year, but it stupidly required a subscription to Flow Plus.

"If an e-bike oregon a artillery is marked arsenic stolen, it tin beryllium identified arsenic specified passim the full integer ecosystem of Bosch eBike Systems," says the institution successful a press release. "This makes reselling the e-bike hard and increases the chances of the o …

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