electric bikes

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Mission One Electric Bike Breaks World Speed Record

2:40AM Jesus Diaz | From concept to real product: The Mission One electric bike—designed and made by Yves Behar and Mission Motors—is now the world’s fastest electric bike at 260km/h. And they got a video to prove it. More »
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Gocycle Bike Offers Best of Both Worlds for Urban Greenies: It’s Folding and Electric

12:00PM Adrian Covert | Unlike other electric bikes, the Gocycle is not only small, it’s technologically savvy. Combining a low-profile, folding design with an electric motor that will let it go up to 25kph. More »
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Best Buy to Sell $US12,000 Electric Motorcycle, Probably with a $US4,000 Service Plan

10:00AM Adam Frucci | Best Buy is set to start selling the Brammo Enertia motorcycle, which is powered by large format lithium-phosphate batteries. Weird! More »
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Mission One to Be World’s Fastest Electric Motorcycle

6:26AM Mark Wilson | The Mission One by Mission Motors promises to be the world’s fastest 100% electric production motorcycle, reaching speeds of 240kph. And while that’s nice and everything, we really like how it looks, too. More shots/details: More »
Design

Concept Electric Bike Charges Via A Method You Probably Would Never Guess In a Million Years

7:39AM Jason Chen | This concept folding electric bike won a Merit prize in a bike design competition, but its practical use is probably limited. Why? Because you charge it at home by pedaling. More »
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Optibike OB1 is a Hybrid Electric Mountain Bike You Might Actually Want to Ride

11:19PM John Herrman | Far from the geriatric, overdesigned and unwieldy electric bikes available to date, the Optibike OB1 is built for proper biking enthusiasts. That is, proper biking enthusiasts with 13,000 spare American dollars. More »
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Japanese Scientists Miss The Point, Design Self-Stabilising Electric Bike

9:36PM Kit Eaton | OK, I’ll admit that this self-stabilising bike is clever: it’s kind of a Segway turned sideways, using gyros to detect if it’s off-balancing, and adjusting the steering automagically to compensate. It’s also a standard electric bike, so it propels you along without needing any annoying foot-power: very 21st Century indeed. More »