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Ultra Motor / A2B bankruptcy

Ultra Motor Ltd, which manufactures and sells the A2B electric bike, has filed for the UK equivalent of bankruptcy reports Bike EU. Ultra Motor was founded in 2003 to develop drive-trains and power electronics technologies for electric vehicles. In September 2008, Ultra Motor launched its first product line in the United States – the A2B read more »

Ellen Fletcher uses a RideKick

I was in Palo Alto during the Gran Fondo today and saw a RideKick electric power trailer attached to Ellen Fletcher’s Breezer Citizen!

Onya Front End Loader

Onya Cycles designs electric bikes intended to replace cars for local errand runs. The Front End Loader can handle San Francisco’s hills, like this video demonstrates.

Clive Sinclair’s electric recumbent bike

Clive Sinclair has introduced another goodie from that wacky and marvelous brain of his: the Sinclair X-1 electric recumbent bicycle.

Bosch eBike

Privately owned Robert Bosch GmbH — the largest automotive component supplier in the world — sees the winds of change and has started an eBike subsidiary: Bosch Powertain Systems eBike.

Volkswagen dancing girls

And there’s also something in this video about an e-bike that folds small enough to replace the spare tire in your car trunk. Not sure I’d really call this an “e-bike” since there’s no provision at all to pedal it — it’s more like a really slow electric scooter (top speed: 12.5 MPH). Unlike Lexus read more »