September 17, 20111 Comment on 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!
November 12, 20101 Comment on 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.
November 4, 20101 Comment on 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.
May 21, 20106 Comments on 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.
April 30, 20102 Comments on 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 and their plans for the Yamaha-built ebike they showed last December at the Tokyo Motor Show, though, VW says they plan to make this folding scooter available for sale.
More on the VW “bike” at Autoblog Green.
March 16, 20105 Comments on Electric rental bike solar recharge stations
Sanyo has combined three cool things I like into one, easy to use package: solar power generation, bike share, and electric bikes. This is so amazing I think my head will explode.
