Upway, the Parisian firm that has been selling reconditioned e-bikes, has just raised another €23m. The firm, which currently operates in France and Belgium, is planning to expand into Germany, the Netherlands and the US before the end of the year.Upway was founded last year by Toussaint Wattinne and Stephane Ficaja, former executives from Uber … Read more
Giant has launched a new line of urban/leisure e-bikes that will be marketed as a new sub-brand called Momentum. The initial offering comprises two urban/leisure bikes: the Transend E+ and Vida E+, both priced at £2,899. Both the Transend and the Vida are built around a 250W Yamaha SyncDrive Life mid-motor capable of producing 60Nm … Read more
Pricing on the long-awaited Citroen Ami electric microcar (legally speaking a quadricycle) has just been announced, with the ‘base’ version starting at £7,695 according to Citroen’s website. That’s a VAT-inclusive on-the-road price too.The headline has ‘electric car’ in inverted commas as this is clearly a ‘lite’ version when it comes to performance stats; it tops out at 28mph and claims a max … Read more
Gloucestershire Constabulary has appealed for information after five electric bikes with a combined value of more than £30,000 were stolen from a shop in Nailsea.All five e-bikes were expensive Riese and Müller models: A Supercharger GT Rohloff in Curry Matt Two Superdelite GT Rohloffs in Tundra Grey A Homage GT Rohloff in Pearl White A … Read more
Back in 2020, Mercedes-Benz lent its name to a pair of e-bikes via a partnership between its Formula E team and bike manufacturer n+ Bikes. This collaboration has now resulted in updates to those two bikes, plus a couple of new, higher speed additions to the range.n+ Bikes has a long-term agreement with both the … Read more
Mycle are a UK based company. They say, “Our bikes are built by local engineers in our UK-based workshops. These workshops run off 100% renewable energy and dispatch every order directly to you, meaning we can avoid extra costs and extra air miles too.” One of their recent model launches is the Mycle Cargo, a … Read more
Orbea has added another e-bike to its range – the Kemen. It looks like another in the growing band of utility e-bikes that’s also intended for off-road leisure riding. There’s definitely a trend towards do-it-all e-bikes that can be used for commuting or on lighter trails. It makes sense as with weight far less of … Read more
As we’ve pointed out before, £1,000 is the price point below which e-bike options really start to thin out. You may have spotted that Aldi has a couple on sale this week though.The Vitesse Pharos Unisex E-Bike is a £799 step-through city bike.It comes with a 250W rear hub motor, a decently-sized 417Wh rear rack … Read more
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Commonly used in woodworking, you don’t really associate mortise and tenon joints with bike frames. That’s how new US e-bike firm Vanpowers Bike have approached things though as they prepare to launch their City Vanture via Indiegogo.A mortise is a hole cut into one component, which then receives a tenon – a projection on the … Read more
E-bikes have accounted for over half of bike sales in the Netherlands since 2020. A by-product of their popularity is that there is now also a burgeoning repair industry. One recent study puts the annual value of the Dutch electric bicycle maintenance market at €200m.We touched on this subject recently in our article about e-bike … Read more
