Podbike Starts Deliveries to Customers

By Scott Green | 9th March 2023 |
light electric vehicle team posing at expo stand

Stavanger, Norway Norway’s Podbike has finally started delivering its Frikar light electric vehicle to customers, eight years after cofounder Per Hassel Sørensen embarked on a journey to build a better bike. “After all the stops and starts, engineering challenges, a global pandemic, a shortage of computer chips, and a painful trimming of staff last year…

Hybrid Series Ruling Clears Path For Greater Innovation

By Scott Green | 10th March 2022 |
A German regulator’s ruling on the Mando Footloose sparked a long-running campaign to have series hybrids classified as bicycles.

Brussels, Belgium A European Commission ruling classifying Series Hybrid e-bikes as bicycles has opened the door for further technological development, according to a peak European body for electric vehicles. The Light Electric Vehicle Association of Europe (LEVA-EU) has been campaigning the commission for nearly five years to have series hybrids (e-bikes without a physical chain)…