The world’s fastest electric motorcycle has a new aerodynamic challenger
Electric motorcycles now offer a practical alternative to their internal combustion counterparts thanks to quick charging models that boast up to 200 miles of urban range. But, a little-known British company wants to make future e-motorbikes much faster. To get there, White Motorcycle Concepts built a unique prototype that it claims can smash a land speed record. The…
Analog Motion’s AMX Is An e-Bike That Wants To Speed
I’m always on the hunt for affordable but high-quality e-bikes. Not everyone can spend thousands of dollars, after all, on something by Riese & Müller or Gazelle. That’s why Analog Motion, a small company based in the UK, grabbed my attention back in 2019. The startup had already run a crowdfunding campaign for the AM1, a pedal-assist bicycle…
Autonomous Scooters To Hit The Cities Soon
Google has engaged with numerous bold ideas it doesn’t like. But three years ago, the concept of a self-driving bicycle was just too much. It ridiculed the idea of an autonomous bicycle in an April Fools’ Day video. Why would someone need a bike that rode itself? Since then the scooter-sharing and electric bike trend has raged into…
Mercedes Benz Also Jumps On The Electric Scooter Bandwagon
For metropolitans, electric scooters have become a standard mode of transportation. Keeping cars in a city can be difficult. Parking isn’t easily available, traffic congestion is frequent, and journeys are usually only a few miles in length, making the trouble of paying for gas, insurance, parking, and the car itself too much of an issue. For…
5 ways an Electric Bike Will Transform Your Life
The age of the electric bike is here. You may not understand it, but electric bikes are the future. Ebike sales hit the roof by 91% from 2017 to 2018, and some commentators expect 130 million electric bikes to be travelling around the U.S. by 2023—far overtaking the number of electric cars and trucks predictable to be on…
Spin Is Debuting In Europe, Eyeing The UK
The Ford-owned scooter company Spin has make public that it is expanding to Europe, with plans to launch in many European cities including Germany before the end of the year. The car constructor purchased the San Francisco-based start-up in November 2018 for an expected $100 million (£77 million) – though Spin won’t endorse the figure –…
India’s First Electric Scooter by Ather Energy
“We didn’t begin this to save the environment,” confided Tarun Mehta about the electric scooter company he cofounded in 2013 with college friend Swapnil Jain, Ather Energy. But if opposing the country’s gas-guzzling vehicles helps clean the air, so be it. “The correct way to actually do that is to create a product that people will buy—we…