[Anonymous]

I have a 20 year old Honda Rebel, but it seems with the major gas crunch right now, there is a huge hot interest in electric bikes… at least for me. When you can get upward to 300mpg equivalent on an electric bike, and powered from any fuel source… it seems like the solution for many people and a good chunk of our fuel crisis.

All the hot development action is in electric bikes… as engines get more efficient and battery cells more powerful.. and yet not a single review… of any…

I’d love to see a general review where you research and list out as many as you can find along with what stats you can compile on them. Start with Youtube and do a search for Electric Bike

[Matt]

A local scooter dealer brought a bunch of electric scooters to the auto show. etup right across from the Smart car stand (and you though the smart was good on gas).

Right now electric scooters/motorcycles are not licenseable on Ontario roads. I forget how they got around the issue, but they get classified as bicycles or something here.

Anyways, even the best one on sale had a top speed below 60kph and a range of less than 40 kilometers on a chrage.

The technology simply is not there yet.

I’m really not sure a review of them is appropriate on this site (yet), since they don’t yet compete with motorcycles as a practical consumer product.
Even still the only ones I saw don’t compete with motorcycles at all, but with 50cc scooters (which Ben has stated several times he doesn’t review because they are a very different demographic from motorcycles).

[Jiriki]

I am building one, I could review that

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