Remodelled Reid Cycles Rolls out Latest Electric Offerings

folding ebike

Frankfurt, Germany A remodelled Reid Cycles was on display at Eurobike 2023, including the Australian brand’s escalating shift into e-bikes and e-scooters. Reid Cycles founder James Reid, group CEO Rob Akam and the Reid team used the Frankfurt trade show to unveil several new e-bike and e-scooter models, including the company’s first folding compact e-cargo…

Perth Investor Revives Tiller

Woman standing with Tiller ebike

Fremantle, WA Fremantle e-bike manufacturer Tiller has been rescued by a new investor, Perth company Electro Ventures, Tiller founder and owner Julian Illich announced this month. Julian said the venture will move forward as Tiller 2.0, which will shift the business model to a lease-to-buy model, with weekly payments instead of up-front payment. He said…

Mate Rates for Fashion Infiltration

Mate.Bike Australia models

Melbourne, Victoria A new Melbourne-based e-bike venture is about to create an unprecedented nexus between cycling and fashion. As part of MateBike Australia’s launch last month, the company has signed up with a major online fashion retailer. Mate this week became the first e-bike brand to be sold on leading Australian online fashion and lifestyle…

BIA Challenges e-Bikes Omission from ACT Sustainability Loan Scheme

ACT households can purchase energy efficient electric stove tops through the Sustainability Loan Scheme, when most cost less than $2,000, even though the Territory Government has stated e-bikes have not been included in the scheme because there are many options available for under that minimum loan amount.

Canberra, ACT Bicycle Industries Australia is challenging the ACT Government’s omission of e-bikes from its Household Sustainability Loan Scheme. BIA General Manager Peter Bourke will this week meet with the office of the Chief Minister Treasurer and Minister for Climate Action, Andrew Barr, to call on the Government to include e-bikes in which scheme. The Household…

Bosch Pays A$1.345 million for a Domain Name

What’s in a name? Clearly a lot if that name is ebike.com! Robert Bosch GmbH, the huge multinational owner of Bosch eBike Systems, just paid US$1,008,900 (A$1,345,000) for the domain name ebike.com. According to dnjournal.com, the domain was previously owned by names company Legendary Names Inc, which bought it at an auction of expired domain…

Cargo Craft Offers 50 Million Kilometres of Proven Reliability

Cargo Craft eBike

– Sponsored Content – For the first time, Australian bicycle dealers can now stock and sell one of the most thoroughly tested, locally designed, bulletproof e-bikes in our nation. COVID-19 has supercharged e-commerce. In many suburbs, Australia Post has stepped up to seven-day delivery, in all weather, road and footpath conditions. Only the toughest vehicles…

Giant’s Ebike Manufacturing Growing at 56% Year on Year

Giant expects to sell 600,000 ebikes in 2019, up from 385,000 in 2018. That’s a growth rate of 56% year on year. Giant recently announced that they had sold 290,000 ebikes for the first six months of 2019 and were aiming to sell more than 310,000 for the second half of this year. Giant is…

New Technology Will Mean Greater Range, Smaller Batteries for Ebikes

Bosch is investing approximately one billion Euros (A$1.63 billion) in new silicon carbide semiconductor technology that is due to enter production in the first half of 2020. In simple terms, the new semiconductors allow power to flow more efficiently from the ebike battery to the motor. Bosch says that semiconductors made of silicon carbide set…