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In last week’s news intro I touched on how e-bikes in Europe tend to be lighter and pricier than in the US. So what happens? The very next week arrive two European spec e-bikes that are both lightweight and around the extremely competitive price point of £1000 ($1385). That’s great to see, so congratulations to both both Pure Electric and Velotton on their light and attractively-priced e-bikes.Meanwhile in the US the march of the powerful hub-motored, big-batteried e-bikes continues, this week with the launch of Juiced’s Class 3 Cross Current X Step-Through.

In this week’s news:

• Juiced’s new step-through is sub $2,000
• Pure Electric’s first e-bike
• Polish firm Velotton announce new lightweight ebikes
• Serial 1 e-bikes now in Europe through Harley-Davidson
• EBFEC budget e-bikes for the UK
• 3D printed e-gravel bike from Urwahn
• Checkout the latest kids seat – now compatible with some e-mtbs
• Tern’s $45,000 Give Back grants

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Electric bike company Himiway this week teased three new e-bikes set to debut this fall, including a “softail supreme,” a “multifunctional e-bike” and a “premium all-terrain e-bike.”

Very few details are public about the bikes aside from a very brief description and a ballpark price point of each bike, though it appears at least two of the bikes — the “softail supreme” and the “multifunctional” bike — will be brand-new to the Himiway lineup. The third bike, the “premium all-terrain e-bike” looks like it could be a successor to the ultra-popular Himiway Cruiser electric fat bike, though it just as well could be an all-new variation of an all-terrain e-bike — it’s tough to tell this early.

RELATED: RadRover 5 vs Himiway Cruiser vs Aventon Aventure: Fat Tire E-Bike Comparison

A brief announcement posted to the Himiway website earlier this week teases price points for the three bikes ranging between $1,000 and just under $3,000. Himiway’s two existing e-bikes, the fat-tire Cruiser and the moped-style Escape, retail for $1,599 and $1,699 respectively.

The announcement of the new bikes comes so early that Himiway hasn’t set a formal date for the hard product launch, only saying the new bikes are expected sometime this fall.

Though we expect more specific details will be made available in the coming months, Himiway has given a peek at what we could expect from the new bikes:

• The Softail Supreme e-bike promises to be the most innovative e-bike built by the company with “first-notch” suspension (presumably front and rear, based off the softail designation) at a price point somewhere between $2,099 and just under $3,000 — Himiway has teased the price at “$2,?99.”
• The Multifunctional e-bike is touted as an all-rounder capable of grocery shopping, ferrying children, making deliveries or really anything else you’d like. Teased at “$1,?99,” we expect this bike to fall into the über popular utility bike category alongside bikes like the Rad Power Bikes Radrunner and Magnum Pathfinder.
• The Premium All-terrain e-bike is a crossover between an electric cruiser and eMTB. The brief description says it’ll have an extended battery life (the existing Himiway Cruiser has a very large battery) and a stylish design. Touted at “$1,?99,” the new all-terrain bike makes no mention of fat tires, so it could well be an all-new e-bike from Himiway, but the rest of its description sounds very similar to that of the existing Cruiser electric fat bike.

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Government efforts to promote the sales of e-bikes through financial incentives take various guises; in France you can trade in your old car for €2,500 towards a new e-bike whilst in the UK the Cycle to Work program is a tax incentive that gives a tax rebate to employees using the purchased bike or e-bike to cycle to work. There are many more examples from around the world, including some that specifically promote financial incentives for e-cargo bikes.

Whilst these are all very welcome, they are all aimed at promoting e-bike sale to solve a particular problem and so will only be available to a certain segment of the population; those with old cars or those in employment cycling to work etc. But the proposed US E-BIKE Act we look at again this week could just be one of the most wide-ranging government incentive initiatives – if it comes to pass – as it will apply to all US taxpayers. If it does succeed it will be a massive boost for the cause of e-bikes in the US.

In this week’s news:

• 30% e-bike tax credit Senate bill introduced
• Raleigh UK launches two new e-bikes
• Greyp T5 e-SUV – the ultimate high-tech trekking e-bike?
• Bamboo e-cargo prototype from My Boo
• Trek sustainability report and trail funding
• Superpedestrian claims radical new pavement safety tech
• E-bike four-wheeler firms in trouble

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It’s great to see e-bike companies doing all they can to offer ever better e-bikes and it’s interesting to see just how they go about it. For Rad Power Bikes it’s about making just about everything on the bike a bit better or easier to use as typified by the RadRover 6, just announced. For Dahon it’s about bringing mid-motor power to the world of small-wheeled and relatively lightweight commuting style folders – something not often done. For Norco it’s the combo of the most powerful motor and the biggest batteries out there whilst Italy’s Bad Bike think the e-bike could be used to repopularise sidecars. It doesn’t matter so much exactly what each company’s take on what’s needed in the e-bike market is – what matters is that they all want to make the next model of e-bike better than the last one…

In this week’s news:

• RadRover 6 redesigned from the ground up
• Dahon Unio E9 – lightweight mid-drive e-folder
• Norco e-mtb range with EP8 power and bigger batteries
• Bad Bike’s e-fat bike with sidecar
• GT’s new BMX inspired street e-bike, the Performer
• Askoll makes big claims for its mid-drive
• Cytronex now offering bigger, bluetooth-enabled bottle battery unit
• Bike path surveying with an electric buggy
• E-bike sales in US and UK compared – is lack of infrastructure holding e-bikes back?

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Rad Power Bikes announced the RadRover 6 Plus today, a complete redesign of their flagship electric fat bike that boasts a torquier motor, a new frame and a boatload of other new goodies.

The new RadRover 6 Plus represents a leap forward for the Seattle-based e-bike company. It’s the first time, according to Sr. Project Manager Tom Mount, that the company has been able to develop the majority of its drive system — the motor, controller and battery — in house.

“The new Rover 6 represents really a ground-up redesign of that bike,” Mount said. “It really represents not only what we’re investing in development and technology, but a bike that is really growing and changing as we are as a company.”

The new RadRover 6 is the first bike released since Rad raised a $150 million investment in February 2021; money that gave the e-bike company the financial bandwidth to better fund their in-house design and development efforts.

The Electric Bike Report staff hasn’t gotten to ride the new Rover yet (stay tuned, we should get the bike soon), but based on some sneak peaks and what we are told the new e-bike can do, it appears that investment is paying off.

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