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The 250W nominative is a stupid bureaucratic limitation. It was set when a pedelec was a bicycle weighing about 25 kg and is more a limit on the acceleration to the 25 km/h cutoff speed - from a private test 900+ Watts gets you from 0 to 25 km/h "pretty quickly" and with the front wheel not wanting to stay on the ground...
Since the pedelec bicycle was born we now have cargo bikes and velocars etc. The weight of these would make intelligent EU bureaucrats come up with a formula allowing for 350W, 500W or 750W motors (nominative) depending on the mass of the vehicle and requiring a braking system also in function of the same mass. But that is not how EU bureaucracy works unfortunately.
Since the pedelec bicycle was born we now have cargo bikes and velocars etc. The weight of these would make intelligent EU bureaucrats come up with a formula allowing for 350W, 500W or 750W motors (nominative) depending on the mass of the vehicle and requiring a braking system also in function of the same mass. But that is not how EU bureaucracy works unfortunately.