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Calories have disappeared from eBike ride?

  • January 16, 2025
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Latest version of Strava on Samsung S24 and Samsung Watch Ultra.

Today was my first cycle commute of the new year and first since getting the watch. Reviewing my e-bike ride, kCal is available on my watch, only. It doesn’t appear anywhere for that activity on my phone, or on the website on desktop. 

Instead, I’m getting a new stat about “carbon saved”, which is meaningless - Strava doesn’t know if I normally walk to work, get a train, or bus, or drive an electric car or a gas-guzzling panzerwagen.

Can you add back the actually useful and meaningful ‘calories’ stat to the phone and website interfaces, please?

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Bryant
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  • March 12, 2025

Hey ​@Anton,

Are you still not able to view calories?
If not please double check that you have entered your profile weight and weight for any Gear correctly.

These values are needed to estimate your calorie expenditure.


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  • March 22, 2025
Bryant wrote:

Hey ​@Anton,

Are you still not able to view calories?
If not please double check that you have entered your profile weight and weight for any Gear correctly.

These values are needed to estimate your calorie expenditure.

Sorry, Bryant, your reply makes no sense.

Strava on my watch can tell me immediately after I’ve finished an e-bike ride, how many calories I’ve burnt. The website used to tell me this, too. Now it doesn’t, only Strava on my watch does. I have changed nothing - Strava did!

I would also point out that Strava on both my watch and on the web can still me tell me how many calories I’ve burnt when I go for a run.


Jan_Mantau
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  • March 22, 2025

If I read correctly you did change something - you record with a new watch since two months. Strava doesn’t have their own calorie calculation for ebike rides so I would guess your former watch was from a Strava partner that had sent the calories to Strava.  In that case Strava displays these foreign calculated calories on the Strava website. For runs Strava does calculate calories.

I don’t know where the calories you see on your watch after an ebike ride are coming from though and why these aren’t exported to Strava.


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  • March 22, 2025

Hi ​@Jan_Mantau - yes, sorry, you’re right, but that’s the only thing that’s changed. Last watch was a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 running the Strava app; new watch is a Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra running the Strava app, in both cases “copied”/ported from my phone.

In both cases, the Strava app itself, on my watch, displays the calories burnt (which I then manually put into MyFitnessPal). 


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