The Electric Bike Company builds its unique variety of electrified California beach cruisers in Newport Beach, California. After visiting its headquarter and assembly shop, the company sent us one of its classic Model C e-bikes for a deeper look.
New York City is unveiling a new plan to allow pedal-electric delivery bikes to park in tow zone areas or on sidewalks and to use the city’s 1,400 miles of dedicated bike lanes in order to reduce carbon emissions and congestion.
CleanTechnica visited Barcelona to get the inside scoop on ebike upstart Rayvolt and we happened upon some exciting news about the company building custom bikes for local bike and scooter sharing network YEGO. Rayvolt has been tapped by Barcelona-based scooter and bike sharing network YEGO to build a custom ebike and standing electric scooter to be used on the YEGO network.
Siemens Stiftung Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Powering Agriculture, and Wetu recently organized an electric mobility conference in Kisumu, Kenya.
Sometimes electric bikes stir up controversy. On ebike groups and forums, it’s common to hear about arguments getting started simply by riding one. If you pass a group of cyclists, especially the “Spandex Man” type, you can get ridiculed and even accused of “cheating.” Some jurisdictions heavily restrict or even ban ebikes, because they’re perceived as dangerous, or because an obsolete law considers them to be a motor vehicle.
Rad Power Bikes up in Seattle designs and sells some of the best values in the world of electric bikes, so we were excited to hear that it is having an early Black Friday sale that makes these even better deals that what you would normally find at your local bike shop the day after Thanksgiving. You get the same great deals you would expect, but you don’t have to wait in any silly lines, worry about getting trampled, or stay up all night to take advantage of the deals. Just hop online and order away.
The Townie Go! 7D is a Townie through and through. Its beach cruiser frame comes in a traditional or step-through design to suit any lifestyle. It brings the same flat-footed designs Townie is known for into the age of electrification, but taps into a new generation of technology to make life even easier, if you can imagine that.
Are you an adventurer who loves it all? Busy urban streets and … winding, hidden country roads.
This may be the perfect solo getaway vehicles. The Daymak Beast 2.0 is great for quiet cruises through the wilderness, or for city commutes.
The Pedego Stretch is an electric cargo bike that packs some serious potential on paper with a starting price point of $3,995. From there, options galore allow you to customize the bike including my favorite, a battery upgrade to a 17Ah battery built with 18650 cells that lets riders motor on for miles and miles without a worry.
It should not come as any surprise that the Electric Bike Company builds e-bikes, but it may come as a surprise to learn that they build them in Southern California. We stopped by the Electric Bike Company headquarters and manufacturing facility in Newport Beach, California to get the inside scoop straight from the mouth of founder Sean Lupton-Smith.
