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The daily commute for an average person can be a lot of different things. It can be dozens of miles spent in a car each morning and evening; an hour or two on public transit a day; or a myriad of other things. So why can’t your commute be spent on an electric bike?

From powerful speedsters and long-haul pedalers to nimble and comfortable cruisers, the team at Electric Bike Report reviewed some of the best commuter e-bikes money can buy in 2023. We’ve compiled our favorites into a list to help you pick the best commuter e-bike for your needs.

E-bikes are changing the world’s relationship with bicycles for the better. They’re making the sport — and, more importantly, the mode of transportation — more accessible for more people, making bicycle commuting an increasingly popular choice among those who never considered it before. The commuter e-bikes included on this list will not just get you to your destination without sweating through your clothes, they’ll get you there quickly and have the battery capacity to cover far distances with ease. EBR’s team of experienced testers have put many of these commuter e-bikes on this list through their paces on our home roads and paths in southwest Utah, but some of these bikes were included on merit alone — their reputations and spec sheets were just too good to ignore.

Because commuting can mean so many different things depending on where you live and work (especially here in the U.S.), we’ve tried our best to stick to bikes designed with commuting as their best intended use. These bikes are primarily built for pavement, and their motor and battery systems were chosen with speed, efficiency and longevity in mind. If you’re looking for a lighter-duty commuter more at home in a bustling urban environment, check out our list of the best city and urban e-bikes — a category closely related to this one.

• Aventon Level
• Priority Current
• Trek Allant+ 9.9S
• Rad Power Bikes RadCity
• Evelo Delta X
• Ride1UP 700 Series
• Specialized Turbo Vado
• Stromer ST3
• Bulls Urban Evo 10
• Riese & Müller Charger3

Best Nontraditional Commuter Electric Bikes

One thing that’s true about e-bikes: they open up the capabilities of most any bike style to fit it to your personal needs. With that extra help from the motor and battery providing you higher speeds, and the ability to sail up hills, you can make an argument for most any e-bike being a capable commuter. With that in mind, you can check out our page where we listed all of our best e-bike of the year nominees.

However, If you’re looking to break the mold and commute on a bike that’s contrary to the definition of a commuter e-bike, we do have a few specific suggestions:

• The Electric Bike Company Model Y. It’s a souped-up beach cruiser that can handle Class 3 speeds, boasts an optional battery upgrade that gave us over 80 miles of range when we tested it earlier this year and tops our list for best cruiser e-bikes.
• The Aventon Aventure fat-tire e-bike. It’s built mostly for backroad exploring, but it’s stable build, comfortable ride and impressive carrying capacity make it great for urban commuting. It’s also on the top of our list of best fat tire e-bikes.

From cruising traffic-clogged city streets to scooting a few blocks to the office and back, the Electric Bike Report staff reviewed some of the best city and urban electric bikes on the market in 2023.

This is a broad category of e-bike, with dozens and dozens of bikes sold today that would work great as city and urban e-bikes. But there are some that are better than the rest, and we’ve listed our top picks below.

City and urban e-bikes are a part of the larger commuter bike category, but they have certain characteristics that make them, in our opinion, best suited for short-range commutes in densely populated urban environments. They’re usually a little lighter, a little more nimble and sometimes have a little less power and range than pure commuter bikes, though they may look extremely similar at first glance. Many of the bikes on this list have been put through the wringer by our team of qualified bike testers on EBR’s home roads and paths in southwest Utah, but some of them made the list on their specs alone — they were just too good to ignore.

Obviously, any bike can be a city and urban bike. You could happily ride a full suspension eMTB around the streets of New York City, but is that really the best use of that bike? Our goal is to help consumers suss out the best use for each e-bike we review. In the case of the bikes listed below, we feel that they’re most at home in a dense urban environment.

• Rad Power Bikes RadMission1
• Trek Verve+ 3
• GoCycle G4
• Ride1UP Roadster V2
• Aventon Pace 500
• Bulls Lacuba Evo Lite Diamond
• iGo Aspire-Vendome
• Specialized Turbo Vado SL
• Orbea Vibe
• Riese & Muller Tinker
• Tern HSD S+
• Blix Aveny Skyline

From fat folders to slimmed-down city dwellers, the staff at Electric Bike Report has reviewed some of the best folding electric bikes on the market in 2023, and we’ve compiled a list of our favorites.

From premium folding e-bikes lauded for their design and functionality to fat tire adventure folders made to pack down for storage, folding e-bikes are a dime-a-dozen nowadays. They span nearly every category of e-bike and every price point, so it can be difficult to choose what electric folder fits your needs best. That’s why EBR’s team of e-bike experts put together this list.

The storage and portability of bicycles has long been a problem the world has been trying to solve. Patents for early versions of folding bikes (more accurately characterized as “break away” bikes during this time period) go back as far as the late 1800’s, but there’s evidence they may have existed even before then. The design really picked up steam in the dense cities of Europe as a smart transportation solution for commuters who needed a lightweight, compact bike that would fit easily on public transportation or into tight offices. The bikes are still popular for that use today, but the advent of e-bikes has adapted the folding design into a very broad range of uses. There’s now versions built with fat tires and light suspension, built for adventuring on light off-road paths; there’s cargo versions that can pack down for storage; and even some that are the size of a full-size e-bike. Motors have made this bike more appealing and more useful to the masses.

Because the category of folding e-bikes has grown so diverse, we’ve done our best to mimic that by making this list as broad as possible. On it, you’ll find folding e-bikes that can be used as commuters, city bikes, adventure bikes and everything in between. The one thing they all have in common, is they all fold up.

And if you are curious for our thought on all the different styles of e-bikes, you can always check out our picks for the overall best electric bikes.

• Best Class II Electric Folding Bike:Rad Power Bikes RadExpand 5
• Best Cheap Electric Folding Bike:Lectric XP 2.0
• Best Class III Electric Folding Bike:Aventon Sinch ST
• Best Modular Electric Folding Bike:Blix Vika+ Flex
• Another Great Class III Electric Folding Bike:MOD City +
• Best Premium Electric Folding Bike:GoCycle G4
• Best Electric Folding Bike For Cargo:Tern Vektron
• Best “Original” Electric Folding Bike:Brompton Electric Line