Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. In the early days of motoring, cars didn’t have the standardized three pedals, ...

The name “electric bike” might give the name of a bike that you don’t have to pedal for it to work. However, bikes like the Fiido M1 Pro Fat Tire Electric Bike come with pedals, and they must have a ...

For those with traditional internal-combustion engines in their cars, there's no such thing as "one-pedal" driving. For those with experience driving a plug-in hybrid or purely battery-electric car, ...

German manufacturer Canyon, one of the world’s leading direct-to-consumer bicycle companies, has just unveiled a pair of high-end electric bicycles as well as a fascinating electric pedal car concept.

May is National Bike Month in the United States. With a combination of more cities focusing on walkability/bikeability as well as an increasingly alarming outlook on ...

Electric bicycles differ from electric motorbikes in pedals, motor capacity, speed limits, and the licensing requirements ...

Electric cars are similar to combustion-powered cars in some ways, but very different in others. One key difference is an electric car’s regenerative braking system, which uses the electric motor to ...

This March, we reported on the Kinetic Photovoltaic Vehicle (KPV), a one-of-a-kind solar-electric scooter that fits inside a suitcase. Well, it seems that Terry Hope, the Canadian inventor who created ...

Electric bikes have revolutionized cycling. But it’s not only commuters and city riders getting in on the e-bike fun; ...

June 25, 2008 The idea of an electric-assist bicycle has been around for some time, with Aprilia’s Enjoy the first really convincing argument that the genre had a future – now there’s another ...

The price of bicycles has risen dramatically in the last decade and the big spike in demand during lockdown certainly didn’t do consumers any favors. Finding a non-electric bike for less than $500 isn ...

Vintage Electric's new Cafe pedal-assist e-bike generates 72 lb ft. of maximum torque in its strongest setting, enough to charge uptake steepest hills in San Francisco. “It’s like riding a bike, but ...