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Micah Toll is an e-bike industry expert, personal electric vehicle enthusiast, battery nerd, and author of the Amazon #1 bestselling books DIY Lithium Batteries, DIY Solar Power, The Ultimate DIY Ebike Guide and The Electric Bike Manifesto.

The e-bikes that make up Micah’s current daily drivers are the $999 Lectric XP4, the $1,295 Ride1Up Roadster V3, and the $3,299 Priority Current. But it’s a pretty evolving list these days.

You can send Micah tips at Micah@electrek.co, or find him on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok.

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Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle rider makes spontaneous 3,500 mile cross-country ride

Felix Stellmaszek is a spur-of-the-moment kind of guy; he says it’s just part of his personality. So when the Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle owner was prepping for a cross-country move from Atlanta to California, he went from thinking “maybe I’ll just ride my LiveWire all the way there” to hitting the road just a couple of days later.

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Fact or BS: An electric scooter with claimed 100 km (62 mi) range? I did an epic test to find out!

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The EMove Cruiser from Voro Motors is a beast of an electric scooter, offering full-suspension and a powerful 1.6 kW peak-rated motor. But its biggest draw might be its giant 52 V and 30 Ah battery, rated for 1.6 kWh of capacity and an unbelievable 100 km (62 miles) of range.

In fact, that range is so unbelievable that I decided to call the company’s bluff. I set out on a full battery range test to determine the true real-world range of the scooter.

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Free app provides safer micromobility-specific GPS navigation for e-bikes and scooters

As someone who travels almost entirely by two-wheeled electric vehicles, I’ve found that major GPS navigation apps can sometimes be just as precarious as they are helpful. Usually intended for cars, most GPS navigation apps can occasionally send us micromobility users onto unfriendly streets. But now ScootRoute is solving that problem with a highly customizable navigation app designed specifically to help riders of e-bikes, e-scooters, and other micromobility devices stick to safer roads.

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Watch this Tesla Model Y vs. Sur Ron electric motorbike in weirdest EV drag race ever

The Sur Ron electric trail bike is likely the best-selling light electric motorcycle in the US. As a benchmark for affordable electric motorbikes, it’s been the star of plenty of matchups before. Those matchups normally pit the bike against other electric motorcycles or even gas-powered motorcycles, but today we were treated to a different type of drag race: a Sur Ron vs. a Tesla Model Y Performance.

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Unagi launches private electric scooter subscription so you don’t share with gross strangers

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Most rental electric scooter services are built on the principle of forgoing the cost of ownership by sharing scooters with everyone else. However, Unagi’s new electric scooter subscription Unagi All Access may be much more interesting in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, when sharing with strangers has become a lot less appealing.

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Long Way Up epic 13,000-mile Harley-Davidson LiveWire e-motorcycle ride gets release update

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When Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman set out from the southern tip of Argentina last year on a pair of Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles, we knew that we’d eventually get to see their hemisphere-spanning trip in the new series Long Way Up.

And now we’re learning that the long wait will finally be over soon.

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BMW is developing an interesting electric scooter with a roof, airbags, and active aerodynamics

For over a year now we’ve been following BMW’s increasingly interesting patents on a redesign to the company’s popular C Evolution electric scooter. The latest updates show that BMW is working on turning the scooter into a seriously high tech commuter vehicle that leverages many of the technologies found in traditional cars.

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Yamaha shows off ‘extremely compact’ electric motors developed for electric motorcycles, cars

When it comes to electric vehicles, Yamaha’s electric bicycle division has been charging into the future while its electric motorcycle division has been oddly quiet and unproductive — at least outwardly.

But now we’re getting a new look at a series of electric motors that Yamaha has been developing — motors that could rapidly progress Yamaha’s EV efforts.

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Top 5 electric cruiser bikes that we’ve tested for summer 2020

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Is there anything more fun than kicking back on an electric cruiser bike, enjoying the big saddle, wide bars, and comfortable upright seating position?

If there is then I don’t want to hear about it, because today we’re all about cruisers! We’ve tested plenty of them this year, and below you’ll find our top 5 favorites that we’ve ridden and would recommend for summer 2020 e-biking fun!

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