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Here's a cheaper one that's still selling http://www.chargerbike.com/

Here's one that's much faster http://tidalforce.com/products/m750x/specs.html

Wow, sounds a lot like this one, http://www.chargerbike.com/

I don't think hub motors are necessarily the best way to go.

The chargerbike has almost everything you need. http://www.chargerbike.com/ The battery pack comes off easily. Once the battery and controller pack's off, if feels like a regular mountainbike. After riding it for a year, I found that it only saves me 3 minutes on my way to work, but I'm definitely sweating less during a 10 minute ride instead of a 13 minute ride uphill. Coming home, I don't get much benefit since I'm going downhill. It may save me 30 seconds off my 7 minute ride when I make my full and complete stops at the stop signs and red lights.

Wrong! Unless you have a DIY electric bike like the slipstream, http://www.econvergence.net/emb.htm, you just aren't going to go 30MPH.

Bikes in most of the USA are legally limited to 20 MPH. Those in many other countries are limited to about 15 MPH (25 kph). In any case most cut off the electric motor when you reach 20 MPH unless you tweak them http://www.chargerbike.com/tech/speed.html

There is currently one that sells for off road uses that doesn't will go 25 MPH http://tidalforce.com/products/m750x/specs.html $2749 is a bit steep, and it's still not legally allowed on streets and bike lanes. Knowing that the US is filled with scofflaws, I expect to see these soon.

Spoken like a true e-bike-phobe. Bicycles are not hard to work on. So now he should buy a scooter that has a gasoline motor that may break down a bit more that's a bit more involved than a bicycle to work on. Go back to you your bike shop and cry some more. Try this one then: http://www.chargerbike.com/

Because this is cheaper and better http://www.chargerbike.com/

You should have gotten the charger bike. It's cheaper.