ABSTRACT
The e-bike is more than a bicycle, as it involves a motorized element and the use of energy in the form of electricity. Using the e-bike on a day-to-day basis is also about technique. Gears matters too, but not as much as the feeling given by the presence of the motor and the impulse it gives while pedalling. Pedalling on this new bike, controlling it in order to move about on it, were not, however, the greatest transformations brought about by motorization: this came from the use of battery power. The use of the battery requires new routines to be created and some loss of autonomy to be accepted in order to gain capacity. An anthropology of energy therefore requires that various different daily experiences be investigated, from the innermost to the most external, in order to be able to grasp what energy does to humans.
