Bus September 2022

Listen up, electric bike companies. You need to give your e-bike batteries USB-C charging, stat!

If you’ve owned an electric bike, e-scooter, or other personal mobility device (and especially if you’ve owned more than one), you know they all have a charger that pretty much fits nothing else you own. I have several electric bikes, scooters, skateboards, and other e-rideables, and almost none of them[...]

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Bus September 2022

Electric micro-bikes are growing in popularity, combining e-scooter ease with e-bike comfort

Ever heard of an electric micro-bike? That’s okay, not many have. It’s a fairly new (and largely undefined) class of micromobility vehicles, but one that is growing thanks to several interesting new additions to the market. While technically not really “bikes” at all in the traditional sense due to a lack[...]

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Bus September 2022

Drive a truck? Just 5 tanks of gas could buy you an electric bike. Or 7 tanks for everyone else.

With average national gas prices passing $5/gal in the US, there’s no time like the present to find a cost effective alternative to driving. And if that money-saving alternative happens to be fun, efficient, healthy and better for the air your kids breathe, then all the better. In fact, considering[...]

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Bus September 2022

REI launches two new electric bike models for a new generation of riders

REI has just launched two new models of e-bikes as part of its new “Generation e” line of electric bicycles. The new e-bikes were unveiled under REI’s Co-op Cycles bicycle line and are known as the Co-op Generation e1.1 and Generation e1.2 e-bikes. Unlike REI’s last big e-bike unveil, the urban-centric[...]

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Bus September 2022

Porsche accelerates its electric bike expansion, buys up German e-bike motor manufacturer

German automotive manufacturer Porsche isn’t sitting in the slow lane when it comes to expanding the company’s reach in the electric bike market. Porsche’s latest power move in the two-wheeled EV industry just saw it buy up Fazua, an innovative electric bicycle drive manufacturer. Fazua makes a number of interesting electric[...]

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Bus September 2022

USPS already testing mail delivery by electric bike with these neat little US-built mail bikes

I recently wrote an opinion piece about how the United States Postal Service (USPS) could look to solve its gas-guzzler truck problem by following Europe’s example of delivering mail with smaller electric cargo bikes. As it turns out, the postal service has already been testing this out, and the little[...]

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