Might be worthy of a thread in it's own right
I keep looking at these for the commute. It's not so bad now I'm doing about 10 miles each way rather than 45, but whilst I'd started using the bicycle again, due to an injury I haven't been able to ride a standard one since June.
For the last few years my normal commute vehicle has been a motorbike. Something between a motorbike and bicycle would be good for exercise, general fitness, not being stuck in a cage but also not spending too many hours of the day commuting. Riding to the main office was taking me 5 hours a day to do the 90 mile round trip, on top of a working day that gets a bit much. I ended up on a motorbike as that dropped it to two hours a day.
At the moment I can use the Trice that I picked up to try out whilst I am recovering fine for the distance, but am really too slow to feel safe on busy commute time roads. A Barakta style electric boost may make that work for me.
Alternatively a e-bike would help out more generally, reducing commute times but also letting me get some exercise. The S-Pedelecs have some appeal, being up to 4kW and 45km/h assisted - and with a full bike license I can use one. However, in the UK you need to register them as a moped, have a number plate, wear a motorcycle helmet, get them MOTed once over 3 years old etc. And with the cost, you are pretty close to just buying a low end electric motorcycle which will have better resale value than a weird machine that is a bit of a licensing oddity. Being able to boost to urban traffic speed levels when needed rather than 15mph would be nice.