Help! Carrera Crosscity or folding e-bike experience?

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Hi, I've been looking at a few foldable or folding electric bikes at the lower end of the price range (£700 to £1400.) I've ridden the Rayleigh Stow-E-way and its very nice. the Apollo has in my opinion grumpy drive, running on when I'm not peddling and sometime stopping for 10 secs when I am. Not a great range either. The test was a 3 mile ride on a tow path and it seemed to use about 1/4 of the battery, I was in the highest gear and peddling reasonably hard. The test took 20 minutes or av 9 mph. The crosscity seems a good compromise and I have tried to book a test ride twice, each time I ended up with a different bike because of a battery swap-out / failure on the Crosscity. So my main concern is with regular usage what is the experience over 2 years guarantee period? I'm aware battery technology is constantly improving so looking for experience over the last year or so please?