electric bike

The big daddy of ride sharing, Uber, has officially jumped into electric bike sharing. On Monday Uber announced that it has acquired Jump Bikes, a 10-year-old venture capital-backed startup that rents out dockless electric bicycles to users around cities. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but a report from last week said that …

NEW YORK, USA – Last Tuesday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that pedal-assisted e-bikes will soon become legal to operate in New York City. As this decision comes after four years of striving to get legislation in place in New York, it’s regarded as a breakthrough for e-bikes …

Philippines-based company takes the concept of green motorcycles to a new level Christopher Paris Lacson is the CEO and design director at Meep Inc (short for Modular Energy Efficient Portage). Meep also has what Lacson calls the company’s “speedy subsidiary”, Banatti, a name derived from the Tagalog word Banat (meaning …

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands – The ‘electrification’ of Europe’s main bicycle markets continued in 2017. Sales of electric bicycles, e-MTBs and speed pedelecs showed a big double-digit growth. E-bike popularity keeps growing in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Of the four named markets e-bike sales in France showed the biggest …

Yamaha, the Japanese company better known for its motorcycles and pianos, is riding into the pedal-powered bicycle world with new models — all with an electric boost, of course. The company’s four electric-assist bicycles will be available in the U.S. market this summer. The range includes the CrossConnect, daily commuter …

Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new scheme in conjunction with the Association of Cycle Traders, and a number of e-bike retailers, to help raise awareness of the benefits of e-bikes, and encourage more Londoners to cycle. Research by TfL has illustrated that more than a fifth of people who …

Want to stir up the cycling masses on social media? Post something about e-bikes. Few topics in our sport raise hackles like bikes powered by batteries. Some welcome their potential to make cycling easier and more accessible, but others fear they’re too close in nature to motorcycles to earn the …

DIEREN, the Netherlands – It will still take some years but eventually more e-bikes than conventional bicycles will be produced in Europe. The electrification shift is picking up pace every year, as was recently underlined by Dutch Royal Gazelle. Recently the company celebrated that its production crossed the 15 million …

There has been an 85% drop in use of all pedelecs and e-bikes, and bicycle vendors have reported a 90% fall in the sale of e-bikes since the government announced a registration scheme for 250w pedelecs, MaltaToday has learned. “It’s time this rather stupid and hastily enacted law is repealed …