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Best Cheap Electric Bikes | These Bikes Won’t Break the Bank

Best Cheap Electric Bikes 2025
Calling an e-bike “cheap” is a risky proposition. As members of the media, we have to be careful to avoid words that can be misunderstood; in this case, our readers might think we are saying the products listed below suffer from poor quality, when we mean instead that they’re extremely budget-friendly.

To be clear, as much as we enjoy helping people find e-bikes to fit their specific needs and budget constraints, we don’t recommend products that aren’t well-made and built using quality components.

If you’re surfing Alibaba, Temu, or Amazon, you may be able to find e-bikes priced lower than those we’ve included here, but there are several reasons you won’t find them listed below. We’ve had hands-on experience with every bike on this page, and each has met our standards for quality, performance, and safety, while still being seriously affordable.

Some of the e-bike models listed here are naturally priced low, while others have been marked down significantly for clearance sales. Some have even been awarded a top overall e-bike of the year by our team of expert testers and reviewers! Regardless, each is a great deal that we think would be hard to pass up if you’re pinching pennies.

Our Best Cheap Electric Bikes for 2025:

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Best Fat Tire Electric Bikes 2025 | 15 Expert-Tested Options

Best Fat Tire Electric Bikes 2025

Fat-tire electric bikes are a dime a dozen nowadays, but which are the best?

From stable and user-friendly bike path cruisers to high-powered bruisers built for hunting and heavy off-road use, e-bikes with fat tires are enjoying some time in the limelight. Whatever your reason for wanting a fat tire e-bike, the Electric Bike Report staff of experts & bike geeks have tested some of the best fat tire electric bikes money can buy.

Birthed from Alaskan snow and New Mexican sand, the ancestors of modern fat bikes first emerged in the 1990s as a means to explore (and race) in terrain unkind to a typical bicycle tire.

Fat tire bikes have had high points of popularity in recent years, but it wasn’t until the rise of the electric bike that they were used by the masses. Motors made the heavy, relatively inefficient bikes more friendly to ride.

Riders like the big tires because they add a feeling of confidence and stability. That’s not to mention that many think they just look cool. As their popularity has exploded, fat tires have been adopted into nearly every category of e-bike.

So, which fat tire e-bike is best for you? That’s a tough question with an answer that differs from person to person. We’ve compiled this list of our picks for the best fat tire electric bikes to help you find the best option based on your specific needs.

Our Best Fat-tire Electric Bikes for 2025

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Best Electric Bikes 2025 – Don’t Buy Until You Read This!

Best Electric Bikes 2025
If you want to purchase an electric bike this year, you likely have questions:

  • Which is the best e-bike for 2025?
  • Which is the best e-bike brand?
  • How do I know that the brand will support me if I have problems with my bike?

We receive these questions daily from our readers, which is why we have written this post. We want to make it easy for you to find the best electric bike for your riding style, interests, and needs.

At Electric Bike Report, we have been reviewing e-bikes for over ten years now. In fact, as far as we can tell, we are the oldest website dedicated to testing and reviewing electric bikes.

In the past 12 months, we have tested over 130 e-bikes from almost every major manufacturer. Keep in mind that this number does not include the hundreds of bikes we’ve test-ridden at cycling trade shows like EuroBike, the Sea Otter Classic, and the Electrify Expos.

Our goal with the following list of recommended electric bikes is to help you find a good bike that will last a long time. As you go through this list, you will notice that we have hill-tested, brake-tested, range-tested, and ride-quality-tested each of these bikes at our team’s headquarters.

As such, if you have any questions about the recommendations below, please ask us. We have extensive knowledge and experience with each electric bike here, and we will respond to your questions.

Our picks for the Best Electric Bikes of 2025

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Best Electric Bike Accessories | The Ones I Personally Use

Best Electric Bike Accessories

You probably have a good idea of what to expect from a page titled Best Electric Bike Accessories. The internet is full of listicles, which are usually broken into tidy categories with two to four options per item and minimal commentary, leaving you to skim and click through what looks good.

Nothing wrong with that. But today, I’m taking a different route and making this list a little more personal. Why? Well, after five years of testing and reviewing products for Electric Bike Report, I think it says something when I choose to take a product home.

Does that mean these are the absolute best with no room for debate? Not necessarily. Personal preference always plays a role. But I get asked all the time: “What gear do you actually use?” So here it is—an honest answer from someone who’s spent years putting these accessories to the test.

Quick note: if you’re looking for more specific gear like racks, we’ve got separate deep dives like our Best Bike Racks page.

With that said, here are eight e-bike accessories that I personally use—and use a lot.

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The Best Defense Against Flat Tires, Lectric 2.0 Trike Drop, Bike Stands | TWR Ep 39

Heybike’s New Galaxy Line, Friction Drive’s Kickstarter Success, and More!

Hopefully, you’re into bike releases, because this week’s e-bike news is packed with them.

Leading the charge is the new Lectric XP Trike 2 (okay, technically not a bike, but close enough). As the follow-up to the best-selling electric trike in the U.S., it’s poised to make some serious waves.

Heybike is rolling out a new fleet of mid-drive models in Europe under its Galaxy line, featuring refreshed designs that suggest the brand is finding its identity and stepping up its build quality.

Elsewhere, Oregon just made big changes to its e-bike access rules, expanding where Class 1, 2, and 3 models can legally ride. Upway is teaming up with Orbea on a new trade-in program across much of Europe, giving riders extra incentives to upgrade. And the Kamingo conversion kit—a friction-drive system that electrifies analog bikes—has already pulled in over $1 million in Kickstarter pledges, offering a lightweight and affordable option for DIY e-bike fans.

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Yakima StageTwo Hitch Rack Review | Heavy-Duty & Versatile

The StageTwo can carry e-bikes weighing up to 70 lbs and with wheelbases up to 52”. It can even be expanded to a four-bike carrier.

Yakima StageTwo Hitch Rack Review

The Yakima StageTwo is an industry staple—and for good reason. It’s reliable, easy to use, and offers a few worthwhile accessories that make transporting e-bikes even more convenient.

It was recently updated with some small quality-of-life improvements, but it’s still every bit as dependable as we’ve come to expect from Yakima.

The 2” hitch model accommodates two large e-bikes up to 70 lbs each, while the 1.25” version holds up to 60 lbs per bike. The arm hook secures over the front tire, keeping your bike’s frame free from contact. There’s generous spacing to help prevent bikes from bumping into one another, and the tiered trays are a thoughtful design choice that allows for additional clearance between handlebars and saddles.

It’s heavy-duty enough for RV use, with one of the thickest center spines we’ve seen—something that helps reduce sway noticeably.

Security features are built-in for peace of mind, but Yakima also leaves space for adding your own heavier-duty locks in case you’re parking somewhere more sketchy.

Planning to grow your riding group? This is one of the few racks that can be expanded to carry four bikes (on the 2” model). While that reduces the per-bike weight capacity, the flexibility to adapt the rack over time is a big win and helps future-proof your setup.

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Burley Hopper Bike Trailer Review | Convertible & Convenient

A durable, multipurpose trailer and wagon suitable for family trips, weekend adventures, and more!

Burley Hopper Bike Trailer Review

It’s hard to avoid accumulating more stuff. Whether your kids are the recipients of a hoard of gifts every holiday season, your spouse is extra susceptible to targeted marketing campaigns, or you’re simply the kind of person who likes to take advantage of a great sale, the number of items coming in the door is usually larger than the number going back out.

With so many single-purpose items on the market, this trend means that a sparsely populated garage can quickly become cluttered with various gadgets and accessories. If you’re a cyclist looking to get more utility from your e-bike, but you’re feeling the aforementioned squeeze, multipurpose products like the Burley Hopper might present at least a partial solution.

This collapsible, combination bike trailer and wagon can transport cargo and contain children while also compacting enough to fit in a closet or on a storage shelf.

The Hopper is designed primarily for cargo carrying, with its 100-lb weight capacity and 115-liter (4.06 cubic feet) volume capacity. Whether hauling groceries, camping gear, beach supplies, sports equipment, or other sundries, it can be connected to nearly any e-bike on the market when in its trailer mode.

Once at your destination, it can be disconnected from the bike and converted to wagon mode, allowing you to push cargo or up to two children by hand. Burley offers a variety of accessories that can be purchased separately or in two packages: the Family Bundle includes a child seat and sunshade, while the Adventure Bundle includes knobby fat tires and a dry bag.

We tested the Burley Hopper with its weight capacity fully loaded in both trailer mode and wagon mode. See the full review below to see how it performed!

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Lectric Debuts The New XP Trike 2

The XP Trike was already the best-selling electric trike in the U.S.—and the new version promises even more without raising the price, offering optional upgrades for both motor power and battery capacity.

Lectric Debuts The New XP Trike 2

Three-wheeled riders, rejoice: the Lectric XP Trike 2 has officially arrived. The original XP Trike topped U.S. sales charts thanks to its unmatched value, filling a major gap in the market for riders who needed the stability of three wheels without the typical price tag of over $2,000.

At just $1,499, Lectric delivered a capable, comfortable, and highly accessible trike. And now, the company has done what it does best: rolled out meaningful upgrades while keeping the base price the same. More bang, same buck.

The XP Trike 2 adds improvements to ergonomics, comfort, and ride confidence, and it offers optional motor and battery upgrades for those willing to wait a bit longer (upgraded models begin shipping in September).

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Aventon Aventure M Review | Testing Numbers Don’t Lie!

The Aventure M blends off-road strength with commuter-ready features—and it’s Aventon’s most capable fat tire e-bike yet.

Aventon Aventure M Review

The Aventure M is a new evolution for one of the most well-known fat tire e-bikes. It takes a new spin on the fat tire experience, opening up new riding potential.

Aventon has equipped their fantastic A100 motor to the Aventure and also includes unique tech such as electronic and automatic shifting, and the ACU, which adds serious security layers to the bike.

The A100 comes from the brand’s eMTB, the Aventon Ramblas, but it feels like a natural pairing with the Aventure M’s mammoth-sized 26 x 4” fat tires. Along with the frame construction, this feels like a much more capable off-roader for XC journeys thanks to the powerful and precise feel of the motor’s engagement.

It’s still a bike that walks… rides?…in two worlds. Aventon equipped the ride with practical inclusions for city/suburban living with integrated turn signals and a 59-lb capacity rear rack (with other add-ons like front baskets available). Its ACU is also 4G enabled, meaning you can remotely lock and track your ride, and set up security layers like motion alarms and geo fencing.

The ride feels surprisingly comfortable, too. That’s thanks in part to the comfort and stability afforded by fat tires, but also a solid suspension fork and the included suspension seatpost.

The Aventure M could be a great option for somebody wanting a more active experience, or somebody needing one bike for their life but wants a more expanded exploring edge, but whatever its intended use, we walked away from the Aventure M review highly impressed, especially in light of the testing data. For all the details, see the testing sections below.

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Best City and Urban Electric Bikes | 11 Light & Zippy Rides

Best City and Urban Electric Bikes 2025

From cruising traffic-clogged city streets to scooting a few blocks to the office and back, our staff of professional testers reviewed many of the best city and urban electric bikes on the market. But what makes a city bike a city bike?

Truthfully, this category of e-bikes is broad, and ultimately, any bike can be a city bike. For example, you could happily ride a full-suspension eMTB around the streets of New York City. You might, however, run into its limitations in that environment when riding through puddles or trying to carry it up a flight of stairs.

Generally speaking, city and urban e-bikes are a part of the larger commuter category, but they have certain characteristics that make them 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.

All of the bikes on this list have been put through the wringer by our team of experienced bike testers on the roads and bike paths of southwest Utah. We consider each to be equally comfortable in a dense urban environment.

If you’re seeking the best city e-bikes on the market, we think these are just too good to ignore.

Our Best City and Urban Electric Bikes for 2025

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