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In this week’s eBike news roundup:
UK’s Sinclair Brand Is Back
If you are British and of a certain age you may well remember the media frenzy surrounding the [Read more…]
By Richard Peace
Welcome to the latest e-bike news roundup.
You know a business is starting to get taken seriously when financial news group Bloomberg starts to hype it. They recently did just that, revealing some interesting stats and quotes about the US electric bike market.
The article showed projected data for 2016 US e-bike sales to be around 152,000; small beer compared to the 1.6 million projected sales for Western Europe.
Whilst it will clearly take a while for the US to catch up, the idea may not be as fanciful as you think according to Claus Fleischer, who heads Bosch’s eBike division. The US market could develop ‘way faster’ than [Read more…]
By Paul Willerton
In technology, the term “last mile solution” is synonymous with “challenge”.
The last mile is where the leaps and bounds of a technology are grasped by the masses. The promise of broadband, trans-continental internet connections took years.
Signals, transmitted across oceans at the speed of light, still needed to find their way into the home at that speed.
Solar power is another technology with tremendous promise that has had a difficulty crossing the chasm to main street.
In San Mateo, California, a company named Swiftmile is aiming to bridge solar power’s last mile gap by becoming a premier infrastructure provider for what Swiftmile calls the “Personal Electric Transporter” market, or PET for short. [Read more…]
Here is VIDEO recap of the electric bike news from the week of November 8, 2010. This is just a quick overview of the news and other ebike things that caught my eye as I surfed through the web looking for cool electric bike happenings!
If you would rather read about this news, you can it out the e-bike news here.
Here is what you can expect to see and hear about [Read more…]
Here is video recap of the electric bike news from the week of October 25, 2010. This is just a quick overview of the news and other ebike things that caught my eye as I surfed through the web looking for cool electric bike happenings.
Here is what you can expect to see and hear about in this video:
This is a crazy story! Worth checking out. Electric bikes take so little energy, solar charging really makes sense.
https://inhabitat.com/2010/10/15/cyclist-journeys-from-france-to-japan-on-solar-electric-bike/
“My Prius gets WAY better miles per gallon than your car!”. The green bragging that is going around is great! Some people have really taken going green to keeping up with the “Jones’s” (or your neighbors). Well if you really want to take it to the next level why not say ” My electric bike doesn’t even use gallons of gasoline!”
Electric bikes are really one of the lightest electric vehicles around. From a pure physics perspective you can imagine how much less energy it takes to move around [Read more…]
