Ariel Rider burst onto the e-bike scene with a design style that marries the benefits of electrified bicycles with the stability and improved road presence of a motorcycle. I’ll be honest — when I saw my first Ariel Rider in person, I was skeptical, but the feeling instantly faded the moment I hopped on and […]
We first encountered the Rayvolt Beachin when we visited its headquarters in Barcelona, Spain. While there, we learned about founder Mat Rauzier’s impressive lineup of stylish electric bikes and his vision for the future of electrified mobility. His unique old school meets new school design sense carries forward classic motorcycle styling and pairs it with
In past articles, I’ve had some pretty tough things to say about the second generation Nissan LEAF. The #Rapidgate issue, where the passively-cooled battery heats up and charging rates slow down more than previous generations, was a particularly bad one. Customers familiar with the first generation LEAF didn’t know that the vehicle was going to
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Vintage Electric Bikes aims to bring the classic styles of vintage motorbikes to the emerging world of electric bikes and by all measures, the have succeeded in grand style. The company brought us the Vintage Electric Bikes Cafe and we ran it through the ringer to see how it held up to daily use. Disclaimer:
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Ride1Up disrupted the value e-bike scene with a range of intelligently engineered, beautifully designed e-bikes packing surprisingly premium features. After reviewing the Ride1Up 700 Series Step Through earlier this year, we were excited to take the more affordable Core-5 for a spin. The Ride1Up Core-5 pairs a slick step-through or high-step frame design with an
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A couple days ago, I encountered something very surprising in my hometown. With the exception of the Chevrolet dealer, which started selling Bolts last year, the place is an EV desert. The Nissan dealer doesn’t sell or work on LEAFs (leaves?). Nobody else sells EVs of any kind, even used. The manager at one of
Detroit Bikes was built on top of the well-worn foundation of decades of American manufacturing in Detroit, Michigan to bring not just American-designed, but American-made bicycles back to the United States. The company takes great pride in its work and not just because of the jobs it creates. Detroit Bikes takes pride in its work
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The team over at Lectric eBikes in Phoenix, Arizona is hell bent on making electric bikes affordable and functional for the masses. The Lectric XP and Lectric Step-Thru were launched at a bargain price of just $899 a bit less than 2 years ago and having shipped more than 70,000 of the bikes to date,
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Very, very few cars can make the Porsche Taycan Turbo S look like it’s standing still in a quarter-mile race, but here we are. While the Taycan Turbo S is already unnervingly fast, all it apparently takes for Porsche’s flagship all-electric performance car to look like a slow car in the drag strip is a
Rad Power Bikes’ RadRunner is a compact cruiser of an electric bike that packs a massive amount of fun and functionality into a smaller, more affordable package. At its core, the RadRunner is a single-speed electric utility bike built on a heavy duty low-step frame with a ton of ways to customize it to suit
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