Electric bike

Posted January 26, 2023

NEW YORK (BRAIN) — A New York City council member introduced legislation a week ago to ban e-bikes and e-scooters until they can be made safer and called for them to be treated like motor vehicles.

Posted January 25, 2023

AMSTERDAM (BRAIN) — E-bike brand VanMoof asked for and will receive a capital investment from its shareholders after it predicted its survival would be in jeopardy in the first quarter of 2023, the Dutch newspaper

Posted January 18, 2023

NEUSS, Germany (BRAIN) — This week an executive at the company that previously owned Amprio, Rheinmetall AG, said Amprio has been sold. But he declined to say who bought it.

Posted January 18, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (BRAIN) — State Farm Insurance Company has filed an amended complaint against Rad Power Bikes, adding a Taiwanese bike manufacturer and a battery pack manufacturer as defendants, in its lawsuit on behalf of a homeowner who suffered property damage from a fire.

Posted January 11, 2023

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (BRAIN) — Pedego Electric Bikes announced it will sponsor a national e-bike safety program with its North American retailers offering free instruction.

Posted January 10, 2023

DETROIT (BRAIN) — Detroit Bikes' new DB-E model has a U.S.-made steel frame, VEER belt drive and a Zehus hub motor with integrated battery. The bike weighs just 32 pounds, the company says.

Posted January 6, 2023
In 2020, the CPSC conducted a recall of the Cannondale Canvas NEO, which comes in Class 1 and Class 3 versions.

(BRAIN) — Do Class 3 e-bikes fall into a black hole of product categories, neither bicycles nor motorcycles, able to charge about the landscape unplugged and unregulated, with no government safety oversight?

Posted January 5, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (BRAIN) — State Farm Insurance Company's lawsuit against Rad Power Bikes could be settled later this month after Judge Chad F. Kenney referred the case to another judge to conduct a pre-trial settlement conference on Jan. 17.

Posted January 5, 2023

LAS VEGAS (BRAIN) — At this week's consumer electronics show, CES, CAKE is showing its first e-bike, a $6,500 Class 2 e-cargo bike aimed at "working professionals."

Posted January 3, 2023

Insurance expert Scott Chapin advises retailers that their risks are much greater than 15 years ago, due to e-bikes.

Posted December 29, 2022

LOS ANGELES (BRAIN) — A Los Angeles judge has approved a $1.5 million settlement between the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died following an e-bike crash and the parents of the 11-year-old girl who was piloting the bike.

Posted December 29, 2022

In Part 2 on how to educate and supply e-bikes and services to public safety agencies, here are the questions to ask your public safety customers.

Posted December 27, 2022
Photo by Eye Speak on Unsplash

For at least one social media news cycle last summer, e-bike fans took to their keyboards in disgust when TheAtlantic.com published “The E-bike Is a Monstrosity” by Ian Bogost.

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