Like all other manufacturers, Bosch is constantly trying to improve your riding experience through minor developments of its drive systems. Now the company has announced new functions for the Nyon display and the ebike Connect app. With these features, Bosch wants to prove its qualities as a travel companion, fitness trainer and environmental expert.
Fancy a detour?
A large part of the upcoming innovations is about navigating while cycling. In various forums, people who ride a Bosch-powered ebike repeatedly wish that the manufacturer would do something more in this regard and emulate the providers of navigation devices and apps. This is exactly the direction Bosch is taking. In future, the map view on a Nyon display will show you selected places – so-called “Points of Interest” (POI). These can be sights, places to eat and charging stations, for example. It was already possible to define eight intermediate stops in the ebike Connect app. Until now, however, they were not to be seen in the Nyon during navigation.
If you want to go to one of these points, simply tap on it in the map view. The Nyon then creates a new route there. If you want to return to the originally planned route later, simply switch to the map screen on the Nyon. Under the menu item “Routes” you will find the folder “Last destinations”. From there you can start your original route again. If you reach one of the intermediate stops on the way, are corresponding message appears on the display. If you spontaneously decide against a stop, the Nyon registers this as well and displays a message saying that you have skipped the waypoint.
With regard to ebike Connect, there is also a very basic simplification. If you create a route to a destination of your choice, you will soon be able to select potential stops in the app from a list of POIs and integrate them into the tour. As mentioned, these will actually be displayed on the Nyon while you are riding.
Honey, which left is ours?
The implemented speed-dependent autozoom sounds exciting in this context. It is supposed to provide more clarity in places where several junctions make it difficult to recognise which one is the right one for you. If your speed decreases when approaching such a junction, Nyon will automatically register this and zoom in on the map. Anyone who has had to dismount several times at such junctions to make sure they are going the right way knows how annoying this can be. Therefore, the benefit of this function is absolutely obvious and the “price” of reducing the speed seems acceptable.
More transparency of one’s own fitness
If you don’t have to guess while you’re on the road, you can concentrate on other things. For example, on your own well-being. For many, the ebike is a piece of sports equipment that is ridden with different ambitions. Soon, the Nyon can also serve as a suitable training computer. On the display, you can define your own goals and compare how you did after each tour. You can set parameters for distance, metres of ascent and energy consumption. The data is saved directly on the display.
Tracking your progress on the display screen can be a little confusing for some. With the new connection from the eBike Connect app to the fitness apps Apple Health and Google Fit, there is an alternative. Thanks to this, it is possible to view and save data on other devices. And if you want, you can share your progress with others and motivate each other.
Doing this much good
The savings screen in the Nyon will also receive a smaller addition. In future, you will be able to see how much carbon dioxide, which is harmful to the atmosphere, you have saved by riding an ebike instead of driving a car. Nowadays, you might have to add as a footnote: with a car with a classic combustion engine. The current emission values for the current week are shown for cycling, what would have happened with a car and the difference between the two. In comparison, you can see the figures for the previous week. In this way, you will be able to tell more or less exactly what contribution you are making to protecting our climate by cycling.
Bosch retains the previous view in the savings screen with the cost comparison between cycling and driving. Tap directly on the savings screen and it will alternately show you these two views.
The new version of the eBike Connect app will be available for download free of charge in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store from 6 April 2022. To update the Nyon, connect the device to a Wi-Fi network once on this day so that it can update itself.
Pictures: Bosch eBike Systems
