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This year’s EICMA 2018 Milan Motorcycle Show was a site to behold. In addition to the standard endless booths of gas-powered motorcycles, this year saw a huge number of new EVs.

Check out all of the coolest, most interesting and even some of the weirdest new EVs we saw there.

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Every year on November 11th, China celebrates their own version of Black Friday known as “Single’s Day”. The origin story is a bit odd (something about celebrating single people, hence the four 1’s), but the point is that it has turned into a massive international shopping holiday with crazy good deals on sites like AliExpress. Last year Alibaba reported over $25B in sales in one day.

The discounted prices cover just about everything, from computers to toothbrushes (seriously, I’m not kidding). But what we’re really interested in are the EV’s and associated parts for things like electric bicycles, e-scooters, e-skateboards, etc. Read on to see a list of some of the best deals we’ve found this year.

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The Spanish automobile company SEAT is the latest to join the electric scooter craze. SEAT just announced that they have developed a new electric scooter along with the electric mobility company Segway-Ninebot.

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Spanish-based Torrot already has a nice lineup of electric scooters. Now the company is showing off their newest electric vehicle, the Torrot Velocipedo, at the EICMA 2018 Milan Motor Show.

The Velocipedo is designed to offer the same advantages of an electric scooter, but in a safer and more convenient package.

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NIU, the largest electric scooter manufacturer in China, made quite a showing at the EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show. The company has a wide range of electric scooters and brought every model they had to the show, including some new ones.

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[Update: Axios has updated its report with more sources saying the deal could see Ford spending close to $100M to buy Spin, while another report from the NYT says Ford will invest another $100M into the company. Ford has also issued an official statement on the buyout.]

This week we heard that Lime is reportedly moving beyond electric scooters and may want to offer small electric car rentals. Now, a major auto manufacturer is jumping into the electric scooter share market. Ford has reportedly signed a deal to buy the scooter startup, Spin for a paltry sum…

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Lyft, normally known for their ride-sharing service, has been trying to break into the personal mobility market with electric bicycles and scooters. Now the company has reportedly hired Liam O’Connor to help build their personal electric vehicle portfolio.

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Thanks to companies like Bird and Lime, electric scooters have transformed into a popular form of transportation. However, most electric scooters have fairly low speed and power ratings.

One US-based company wants to change that, and has developed an electric scooter that you really must see to believe.

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With over 70 million gas scooters and mopeds already on the streets worldwide, these small and nimble vehicles are an important part of the transportation ecosystem.

However convenient they are for riders though, loud and polluting gas scooters are a still a nuisance in many cities. But the scooter landscape is changing quickly as the industry shifts towards electrification. We sat down with the chairman of KYMCO, one of the largest scooter companies in the world, to discuss their plans to move towards electric scooters.

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We are just days away from the EICMA motorcycle and scooter show in Milan, and there’s been a steady stream of new electric two-wheeler unveilings.

The newest is an impressive high performance electric scooter produced by the British startup company Zapp.

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Electric scooter shares are great, and people are loving them by most accounts. At just $1 to start and $0.15 per minute afterwards, they are an affordable way for many people to test ride their first personal electric vehicle.

However, when people start using them as a regular form of transportation, the cost can quickly add up to the price of buying an equivalent electric scooter. That has led to a surge in sales of consumer electric scooters over the past year. Here’s a rundown of the best and most affordable electric scooters on the market.

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Tuesday, November 6th is Election Day in the US, and multiple transportation companies want to help you vote. To make it easier to get to a local polling station, Uber, Lyft and Lime are all offering free or discounted rides to polling centers.

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The Zoom Stryder couldn’t have come at a better time. With electric scooter share companies like Bird and Lime expanding around the world, studies show that commuters have been falling in love with tiny, two-wheeled EVs.

The prevalence of scooter sharing companies has introduced the masses to electric scooters and their advantages. Now sales of consumer electric scooters have taken off, and the Zoom Stryder is one of the best electric kick scooters I’ve tried so far.

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It’s an exciting time for electric scooters and mopeds. The number of manufacturers continues to grow, and that competition is also keeping prices affordable.

SWAG isn’t the newest electric scooter company, as they’ve already been selling their products in Asia with over 1,000 scooters sold in just the last three months. But they are the newest electric scooter company to begin selling worldwide. And with a price tag of $1,200, it’s hard not to at least take a second look at these cute little EVs.

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Despite beginning sales of electric scooters in 2011, Flux Mopeds has done a pretty good job of flying under the radar.

But now with sales in 15 states and rave reviews of their EM1 electric moped, the Wisconsin company is ready to stand up and be seen.

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Lime has just released a new model for their electric scooters, the Lime-S Generation 3. It is designed to improve upon the original Lime scooters that have proven popular among commuters in cities across the world.

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Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of promise for swappable electric batteries in the light electric vehicle industry. Just yesterday, KYMCO announced a partnership with 22Motors to build electric scooters based on the Ionex swappable battery standard. Now one of KYMCO’s biggest rivals in the battery swapping EV space is firing back with their own announcement.

Gogoro has secured a number of new partnerships using their own swappable EV batteries.

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KYMCO, the largest scooter manufacturer in Taiwan, may have developed the single swappable battery standard that we’ve all been waiting for. KYMCO’s electric scooters are powered by the company’s modular and removable Ionex batteries.

KYMCO developed the batteries with the goal of creating a standard battery platform that other companies could design electric vehicles around. Now they’ve declared their first publicly announced partnership that will see their batteries powering electric scooters built by another manufacturer.

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The city of San Francisco awarded two operating permits for electric scooter sharing companies last month. Lime, one of the two largest electric scooter sharing companies, was denied.

Now the company is filing an 11th hour court motion to block anyone from operating electric scooters in the city.

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These days Lime’s electric scooters are seemingly everywhere. While the little electric vehicles are surely more energy efficient than most other forms of urban transportation, the electricity to charge them has to come from somewhere. And sometimes, the sources aren’t as clean as we’d like.

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In the last three years, NIU has produced and sold over 500,00 electric scooters that have driven over 1 billion kilometers. Earlier this year, NIU’s unveiled a new line of electric scooters specifically designed for the European market.

Now the company is expanding sales around the world, taking reservations for pre-orders with a $118 (€100) deposit.

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