E-bikes

Buy $100,000 stainless steel electric truck and paint it… flat brown?

How Rivian Spinoff Also Is Reinventing The Electric Bike Also, formerly Rivian's e-bike project, unveiled a $4,500 electric bike that it says is packed with Rivian

Meet Also: the spinoff company from Rivian looking to revolutionize the e-bike. More details and a video tour here:

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I have been waiting for this Rivian ebike for so long, and it is finally here! Some really cool innovations (swappable seat/rear-end!) but only one major flaw: it still has pedals. Pedal by wire is perfect absurdity; it separates effort from transport ... and then makes you do both. v2.0 won't have.

Today, the world became too much, so I resorted to something I used to do more often, which is take photos of the cargo bike on infrastructure I enjoy.

Find My Parking Cops Find My Parking Cops is the only prediction market where you can bet on San Francisco’s most aggressive parking enforcers. Every day, SF parking cops rack up thousands in ticket revenue. Now you can...

Apparently SF Parking enforcement data is available online. Someone downloads and analyzes it in real time so you can see tickets seconds after they are written, see which officers write the most, etc. Now a prediction market has grown up around it.

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Could Amflow's 1000W E-Bike Ruin It For Everyone? The high-powered Avinox system may have started an arms race.

For discussion: open.substack.com/pub/bermpeak...

Britain’s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers – and unthinkable danger E-bikes can legally travel at 15.5mph. But the fastest the police have seized was capable of 70mph. What will stop the rise of these souped-up and potentially fatal vehicles?

“I got it because I do, like, eight or nine hours a day, and if I’m only pedalling I’m going to get more tired. An e-bike makes it more comfortable.”

a young boy in a cowboy outfit is walking towards an older man ALT: a young boy in a cowboy outfit is walking towards an older man

Was expecting a “Musked” finish at the end.

The debate over definitions is the core of the debate for effortless personal transportation.

Either people want you to pedal and give effort (for them), or they want you to be free to move.

One is servitude, one is liberty. Surprising that so many long time bike riders are on the wrong side.

Tesla drivers are completely irresponsible.

"That Lectric e-bike is awesome, by the way."

I’m willing to entertain critical discourse about e-scooters and e-bikes if it is substantially and accurately in a frame of “in order for more people to get around without a car, we should…”

Golf Carts Have Taken Over Suburbia. Cue the Resistance. Demand for street legal carts is surging despite complaints from drivers; ‘We all hate you’

"Demand for street legal carts is surging despite complaints from drivers; ‘We all hate you’."

Motorists hate other motorists, golf cart folks, people on bikes, pedestrians, and transit vehicles. Maybe it's time we consider that the problem on our streets are the motorists themselves.

Golf Carts Have Taken Over Suburbia. Cue the Resistance. Demand for street legal carts is surging despite complaints from drivers; ‘We all hate you’

On the contrary, golf carts *are* the resistance -- to cars!

When is this happening? 👀

Not electric. Eclectic, but not electric.

Working on it

that's right!

e-bikes replace *car* trips

they're the greatest climate mobility hack invented yet

governments should be giving them away

Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...

Interesting study from Germany on e-bikes and the modes they replace:

"43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions"

photo of a white and brown cat lying on pavement, on top of a stencil of a bike. it looks like the cat is riding the bike

happy caturday

Danville Explores E-Bike Safety & Enforcement The Danville Town Council held a study session to explore ways to better regulate e-bike usage, particularly among minors.

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EXCLUSIVE: Council Will Force Apps To Fund Safe E-Bikes for Workers - Streetsblog New York City The City Council is set to pass a bill on Monday wthat will make app companies responsible for their workers using safe e-bikes.

The City Council is set to pass a bill on Monday that will make app companies responsible for their workers using safe e-bikes.

All e-bike Citi Bikes now restricted to 15 mph in NYC Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said the 20,000 e-bikes were harming public safety in the five boroughs.

All e-bike Citi Bikes now restricted to 15 mph in NYC gothamist.com/news/all-e-b... @citibike

“pedal-assist to 15.5 mph (25 km/h) plus throttle.”

#PedalsAreDead

YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC NYC's War on Cyclists Is a Failure of Mayoral Leadership #nyc #ericadams #bike #cycling

WTF is going on here? @emilylip.bsky.social explains: www.youtube.com/shorts/QKv8R...

First post-launch savings on Segway’s new Xafari and Xyber e-bikes, EcoFlow DELTA Pro 400W solar bundle at new $2,199 low, more We’re starting off this week’s Green Deals with the first post-launch savings on the new Segway Xafari and Xyber e-bikes starting from $2,200. Right behind it, EcoFlow is kicking off hurricane season with up to 55% discounts on a sizeable collection of power stations, complete with bonus savings, select 2x EcoCredit rewards, and some lower-than-ever member-only pricing, including the DELTA Pro Solar Generator bundle with a 400W panel at a new $2,199 low. Lastly, we have two mowing deals, with the first being the EGO 56V 21-Inch Cordless Electric Select Cut Self-Propelled Lawn Mower Kit that includes 7.5Ah and 5.0Ah batteries back at its $600 low. You could also automate your lawn care with Segway’s Navimow i Series of RTK Robot Mowers that are getting rare price cuts starting from $849. Plus, there’s all the rest of the hangover Green Deals from last week in the links at the bottom of the page, collected together in our Electrified Weekly Roundup. Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories. more…

First post-launch savings on Segway’s new Xafari and Xyber e-bikes, EcoFlow DELTA Pro 400W solar bundle at new $2,199 low, more

Once the entire fleet is throttle assist, maybe Lime can swap out pedals for floorboards. Fewer moving parts, less weight, safer to ride, cost less to maintain and repair.

More throttles = more bike rides

H/t Micromobility newsletter

Good news: the e-bike rebate program is available again

A screenshot of the headline of an article from CityNews Toronto of "Speeding e-bike riders stir safety fears on Toronto streets"

can't help but see headlines like these and assume any safety fears about e-bikes are due in part to the normalization of speeding car drivers