SEAT has launched its first electric moped, the 9kW SEAT MO eScooter 125. As the name implies, the vehicle is equivalent to a 125cc motorcycle and will therefore require an A1 motorbike licence to ride.“SEAT MÓ is our answer to the demands of modern urban mobility,” explained Richard Harrison, Managing Director of SEAT UK. “With … Read more
Over 100 million car and taxi trips in the UK’s seven city regions could instead be completed on e-bikes if the Government is able to meet its cycling target, according to a new report by consultants Steer for the Urban Transport Group (UTG). The Fully Charged report – which was commissioned by the Urban Transport … Read more
The Gocycle may look futuristic but in fact its parent company Karbon Kinetics has been around since 2002 – though it was 2009 before the first Gocycles appeared on shopfloors. This lengthy gestation is hardly surprising when you look at the own-design technology packed into the bike which includes Pitstop ‘quick change’ wheels on single … Read more
Kent Police are appealing for information after a teenager rode off on an e-bike after asking for a test ride from the would-be seller. The 17-or-18-year-old arranged to view the Cube Reaction Hybrid at a property in the Broomfield Road area of Herne Bay on Monday October 25.He arrived at about 8.30pm and asked the … Read more
After the Harley-Davidson e-Chopper and the Harley-Davidson tribute e-bike, the latest one-off creation from Serial 1, the motorbike manufacturer’s e-bike spin-off, is an electric BMX.As with the other two, the Mosh/BMX is being auctioned off.e-BMX rear (Image Credit: Serial 1) This time around all proceeds will go to the ‘just keep livin Foundation’ – a … Read more
Icoma’s CEO says he used to design “shape-shifting robots” for a toy company (so Transformers, basically). That background goes some way towards explaining the Tatamel bike, an electric moped that folds down to the size of a desktop PC.Folding e-bikes come in many shapes and sizes, but we haven’t seen too many that boast moped … Read more
A new report has found that 11 per cent of Britons are more likely to use or buy an e-bike now than they were before the Covid-19 pandemic. This is however a smaller percentage than in Europe as a whole where several nations have been offering e-bike subsidies to encourage uptake.Shimano’s third State of the … Read more
E-bike start-up Velotric is launching an affordable commuter e-bike with a strikingly large battery. The firm – which is led by Adam Zhang, co-founder of e-bike and e-scooter hire firm Lime – has so far crowdfunded over £150,000 for the Discover 1 via Indiegogo.Velotric says it believes that e-bikes should be elegant, stylish, high performance … Read more
Hookie (not to be confused with Hooky, the bass player from Joy Division and New Order) are a team of German motorbike designers. Their latest creation is the Tardigrade, a motorcycle concept built to explore the moon’s surface “and beyond.”The Tardigrade takes its name from the weirdly resilient micro-animal that is able to withstand all … Read more
Voi Technology has temporarily paused its Peterborough e-bike share operation as a result of persistent vandalism.Voi’s Cambridge e-scooter operation began in October 2020 and e-bikes with numberplates were then added in Cambridge and Peterborough in January of this year.There have been 129 e-bikes for public hire across Peterborough, but multiple instances of vandalism have resulted … Read more
