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Scoot rolls out rentable electric mopeds — will this be the hottest e-bike style of 2020?

Scoot Cruiser Bird electric moped

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.


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Electric bicycle sales soar as Giant projects 600,000 e-bike sales this year

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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.


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FREY unveils pricing and takes orders for its 31 MPH and 1,500W electric bikes

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FREY Bikes sent a shockwave around the internet last month when the manufacturer unveiled two new high-speed full suspension e-bikes.

With its previous e-bikes gaining a reputation for matching the specs of $6,000-$8,000 European E-MTBs yet at half the cost, all eyes were on the young e-bike company, which hadn’t yet revealed prices for its brand new models.


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Super Monarch e-bike hits 30 mph with 2 batteries, AWD, and full suspension

super monarch AWD ebike

At a time when many e-bikes are starting to look like cookie-cutter copies of each other, the new Super Monarch electric bicycle has gone a different direction. And that new direction includes adding an extra motor, an extra battery, ratcheting up the speed, and then tossing in full suspension on top.

The result is a fast and powerful e-bike with plenty of range that can provide as much fun off-road as it can on-road.


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Evelo Aurora Hub-Drive is a 1 kW Cadillac of fat-tire road ebikes

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The Evelo Aurora Hub-Drive really surprised me with its usability. I’m a little spoiled because I own a “bike-shop ebike” that I ride to work daily. Because of that, I’m often disappointed in the quality of $2,000-and-under ebikes. Components, weight, and workmanship are often sacrificed to get to those low prices. But that’s not the case here…


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