Current Plus: 720 Is 44% More Than 500
Priority’s Current Plus cart, opened 10 November 2026, shows $4,285.93 in a Black Friday banner. Electrek’s 8 November list and a spec card say $3,299. The pack is 720 watt-hours, and Priority says that is over 40 percent more ride than the old 500 watt-hour Current. Seven hundred twenty divided by 500 is 1.44, which is 44 percent more energy, not automatically 44 percent more miles. The motor is a 500-watt mid-drive, 140 newton-meters. Range is printed as 20 to 75 miles. It ships Class 2 and can be set to 28. This desk did not ride it.
By SickEBike desk
The short answer
The Priority Current Plus pack is 720 watt-hours. The old Current was 500. Seven hundred twenty divided by 500 is 1.44, which is 44 percent more energy, not automatically more miles. Range is 20 to 75 miles. The motor is 500 watts and 140 newton-meters. The cart showed $4,285.93. Electrek’s list is $3,299.
The Current Plus is Priority’s belt-drive city bike with a mid-drive, not the Skyline. The spec table says a 500-watt torque-sensing mid-drive and 140 newton-meters. The pack is 720 watt-hours, removable. Priority’s own sentence says a 720 watt-hour pack instead of a 500 means over 40 percent longer rides than the previous Current. Seven hundred twenty divided by 500 is 1.44. The tank is 44 percent larger. A larger tank is more miles only if the bike spends the same watt-hours per mile. The range line is 20 to 75 miles, and it says the low end is more throttle and more assist. Seven hundred twenty divided by 75 is 9.6 watt-hours a mile. Divided by 20 it is 36. The range page is that spread. The watt-hour page is the 720, which the page never breaks into volts and amp-hours.
$4,285.93 is not $3,299
The cart this desk opened is a sale banner. Electrek’s list price is $3,299. Do not average them.
On 10 November the product page showed $4,285.93 under a Black Friday line that says save up to $1,500. Electrek’s 8 November list says $3,299, and 99 Spokes lists a manufacturer price of $3,299. Four thousand two hundred eighty-five dollars and ninety-three cents is not $3,299. This desk will not subtract $1,500 from $4,285.93 and call the result the real price, because the banner does not say the $1,500 applies to this bike. Weight is 55 pounds on the Shimano Inter-5 version and 56.5 on the Enviolo. The battery is 8 pounds 9 ounces, which is 8.6 pounds. The belt is a Gates CDX. Brakes are dual-piston hydraulic, 180 mm, with a cutoff switch. The Enviolo is a CVT. The Shimano is a 5-speed internal hub. They are two bikes at two weights.
Class 2, with a 28 mph setting
Priority says it ships as Class 2 at 20 mph and can be raised to a Class 3 setting at 28, and says to read the local law. The range sentence mentions throttle use, so a throttle is on the bike. A Class 3 setting that keeps a throttle is not a clean Class 3. Five hundred watts is under 750. The class chart is the test. The mid-drive page is why this 140 newton-meters sits at the cranks and the Skyline’s motor sits in the rear hub. No public loop with a watt-hour total turned up in this pass. This desk did not ride it.
Questions people ask
Is the Current Plus 44 percent more range?+
The pack is 44 percent more energy. Seven hundred twenty divided by 500 is 1.44. More watt-hours is more miles only if the bike spends the same watt-hours per mile. The printed range is 20 to 75 miles, which is 36 to 9.6 watt-hours a mile.
How much is the Priority Current Plus?+
The cart on 10 November showed $4,285.93 under a banner that says save up to $1,500. Electrek and 99 Spokes say a manufacturer price of $3,299. Do not subtract 1,500 from 4,285.93. The banner does not say that cut is this bike.
Is the Current Plus Class 3?+
It ships as Class 2 at 20 mph and can be set to 28. The range sentence mentions a throttle, so a throttle is on the bike. Class 3 does not get a throttle. Five hundred watts is under 750.
Is the Current Plus the Skyline?+
No. The Current Plus is a mid-drive with a Gates belt and either a Shimano Inter-5 or an Enviolo. The Skyline is a 750-watt rear hub and a Pinion gearbox.
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Priority’s Skyline cart, opened 10 November 2026, is $3,999, the same figure Electrek printed on 8 November. An August 2025 note took $300 off, to $3,699, through 18 August. That date has passed. The motor is a 750-watt rear hub with a torque sensor. The pack is 720 watt-hours. A marketing tile says 30 to 60 miles. The spec table says 20 to 60. Sixty miles is 12 watt-hours a mile. Twenty is 36. A thumb throttle plus a “28 mph Class 3” line is not clean Class 3. It is not the Current Plus. This desk did not ride it.
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