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.
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I’ve seen and played around with a lot of DIY electric bicycle conversion kits. Hell, I even wrote the book on the subject. But the Swytch kit is something unlike any other conversion kit I’ve seen. It’s an interesting new take on the classic e-bike conversion problem.
It looks like we can add Energica to the list of electric motorcycle companies that will be pulling a veil off a shiny new motorcycle at the 2019 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show next week. The Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer will be showing off the 2020 version of its flagship Energica Ego electric racing bike.
This past weekend we first broke the news on a new electric motorcycle that was headed for a debut at the 2019 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show next month. But as interesting as the Hadin Panther electric cruiser looked, there were some serious questions and suspicious riddles that were left unanswered.
Now we’ve caught up with the company to get to the bottom of the mystery of what they call the “first American-style cruiser electric motorcycle.”
One of our favorite electric scooters of the year has been the WideWheel electric scooter from FluidFreeRide.
Vintage Electric, a California-based electric bike manufacturer, collaborated with American automotive racing legend Carrol Shelby’s grandson on Vintage’s latest high-speed electric bicycle.
KYMCO has just announced a new electric scooter to be unveiled at the 2019 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show. But the new KYMCO RevoNex isn’t your standard little electric scooter. It’s a maxi scooter that seems to blur the line between electric scooters and electric motorcycles.
Riding through the south German countryside between rows of farmland, there was nothing to give me a sense of time. The green fields were dotted with rickety old barns as I blew past on my vintage-looking scooter. The only clue to remind me that I wasn’t living out a 1960’s Eurotrip fantasy was the soft whirr of the electric motor on my Kumpan electric scooter – a sound that surely would have been replaced by an abrasive “putt putt putt” on a scooter like this decades ago.
Despite a growing range of electric motorcycles available to the public, electric cruiser motorcycles are still few and far between. Now a new company known as Hadin is planning to present an electric cruiser motorcycle at the upcoming EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show. But is the Hadin electric motorcycle the real deal?
Ducati has promised the world that it plans to roll out an electric motorcycle, but so far we’ve seen the company put its name on just about every other type of electric two-wheeler. The latest is a set of three new Ducati electric bicycles that were just unveiled at a Ducati event in Italy.
NIU is well known for its high tech electric scooters, which took off in China before receiving high acclaim upon their export to Europe. But recent spy shots received exclusively by Electrek show that the electric scooter manufacturer might have its eyes on something bigger – in the form of a NIU electric motorcycle.
BULLS has provided one of the widest ranges of premium electric bicycles out of any manufacturer. So it comes as no surprise that the company’s 2020 lineup announcement includes a total of 18 new models with a variety of new motors and batteries.
Swagtron’s EB7 folding electric bike has long been one of the brand’s best selling e-bikes. With an original price of just $599 and the performance to match many e-bikes at twice its price, its popularity is no surprise.
And now the company is back with a number of upgrades to the Swagtron EB7 that should help make it better than ever.
I recently got my hands on a high-power and high-speed Currus NF electric scooter from FreeMotionShop.com.
And while many electric scooters are guilty of wobbly parts and substandard construction, the Currus NF may just be the most overbuilt electric scooter I’ve ever seen.
So far, the only thing we’ve known about Harley-Davidson’s upcoming electric bicycles is that they are coming. But now we’ve received new info that sheds some light on what H-D is planning for the lightest motorbikes they’ve ever built.
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At a time when many electric bicycle manufacturers are showing off small, incremental advances, the X One e-bike is set to leapfrog them all.
That’s because this futuristic e-bike is combining a sleek, futuristic design with new technology rarely ever seen in an e-bike. And the price is pretty revolutionary too, in a good way.
We’ve been reporting on the Bird Cruiser a fair amount lately as we keep getting clues about its imminent release. The format has proven to be popular with the masses, and everyone wants to know when Bird’s electric moped will be released to the public. But as it turns out, Scoot has beaten Bird to it, and rolled out the first rentable electric mopeds based on the Bird Cruiser platform.
The Curtiss Hades electric motorcycle was first unveiled earlier this summer. It quickly became the electric motorcycle seen round-the-internet after its appearance received certain anatomical comparisons.
The saying with electric bicycles (and many other things, to be fair) goes something to the effect of “You can have it good, fast, or cheap. Pick two.” But the Aventon Pace 500 electric bicycle comes dangerously close to giving us all three, as I discovered while testing the bike for our latest review
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If you’ve done a double take recently after seeing an otherwise unassuming cyclist fly past you or up a steep hill without the typical huffing and puffing, you’re not crazy. You’ve probably seen one of many electric bicycles in a quickly growing wave of e-bike adoption.
And Giant’s massive e-bike sales predictions for this year further underscore the rate at which consumers are switching to electric bicycles.
The Revolt RV400 electric motorcycle was unveiled earlier this summer and was subsequently slammed with huge demand.
Harley-Davidson appears to have found some type of issue with the LiveWire, so the company has halted production of the electric motorcycle while it investigates.
Update: A Harley-Davidson Motor Company spokesperson tells us that LiveWire production and deliveries have resumed.
After completing rigorous analysis this week, we have resumed LiveWire production and deliveries. Customers may continue riding their LiveWire motorcycle and are able to charge the motorcycle through all methods. Temporarily stopping LiveWire production allowed us to confirm that the non-standard condition identified on one motorcycle was a singular occurrence. We take pride in our rigorous quality assurance measures and our drive to deliver the world’s best motorcycles.
We have confirmed that this was a singular occurrence on one motorcycle. Our rigorous analysis showed our strong quality assurance measures are working as designed. The findings also reaffirmed the strength of LiveWire’s technology and product design. Production has resumed and we are delivering to dealers.
We’ve been following the RMK E2 hubless electric motorcycle for a few years now, and have just learned that the Finnish company is finally ready for the bike’s release.
Bajaj is back in the scooter game after a 10-year absence. This time around they’ve resurrected the Chetak scooter, though in electric form.
And you may recognize the design as something familiar…
The results are in and San Francisco has voted to greenlight a new plan that will see Market Street closed to private cars.