Plans have been announced for an E-Bike Grand Prix racing series featuring pro cycling teams racing around specially designed city centre tracks on electric road bikes at “motorway speeds”. Broadcast production will be delivered by Sunset+Vine, which has promised to put virtual and augmented reality at the heart of its coverage.Owned and developed by Cube … Read more
Bird has introduced a new checkpoint in its e-scooter hire app which is designed to discourage people from riding while under the influence of alcohol. Between the hours of 10pm and 4am, riders attempting to unlock a Bird scooter will be asked to verify that they can safely handle the vehicle by correctly entering a … Read more
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Thieves took the e-scooter of a teenager who was killed in a hit and run in Bromley on Sunday. Police have appealed for witnesses regarding both incidents.The BBC reports that the Metropolitan Police were called to Southborough Lane, Bromley, at around 1.20am following reports of a collision involving a motorist and an e-scooter rider.The e-scooter … Read more
Nine electric motorbikes, together worth around £45,000, have been stolen from a shop in Cannock. PCR Performance said the thieves spray-painted their CCTV cameras before removing all of the bikes within three-minutes of triggering the alarm.The theft took place just after midnight on Sunday June 27.Four 3kW Sur-Ron Light Bee on-road models and four Sur-Ron … Read more
When is an e-bike not an e-bike? When it’s a moped. Except it may well still be an e-bike too. Okay, let us explain…The problem with light electric vehicle (LEV) terminology is that the boundaries between one type of vehicle and another are almost always vague and ill-defined.‘E-bike’ is frequently the fallback term. That’s a … Read more
Bosch has introduced a new riding mode for its Performance Line CX motor. The Tour+ mode offers dynamic assistance according to the rider’s level of effort, removing the need to switch between different power levels. The firm said it was intended for ‘sporty rides,’ rewarding greater effort with increased range.“With the Tour+ riding mode, e-bikers … Read more
The Metropolitan Police has seized over 1,000 privately-owned e-scooters in the month since trials of rented scooters got underway in the capital. The news came during an at times alarmist House of Lords debate during which the vehicles were at one point characterised as being, “very nippy for criminal activity.” Baroness Ludford started things off … Read more
Where do you turn when your two-wheeled EV ambitions outgrow an e-bike? The world of electric mopeds and motorbikes is a fledgling one, and electric power here is nowhere near as common as in cars or bikes. The movement is beginning, however, with a generation of students, takeaway delivery specialists, and even commuters coming round to … Read more
UK start-up CrownCruiser Motors has launched its first e-bike via Indiegogo. The vaguely motorbike-looking CrownCruiser will be available as a 250W pedal-assist bike or with a 750W motor and a throttle.Last year CrownCruiser won £139,970 in investment from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund. The money was used to set up an operations and assembly centre … Read more
E-bikes currently account for around 17 per cent of European bicycle sales, but Bosch predicts that will rise to 50 per cent within the next few years.A report in February concluded that “ever-increasing demand” for e-bikes was helping the bike industry recover rapidly from the impact of Covid-19 and that interest shows no sign of … Read more
