Wheel-E

New e-bike regulations, sodium batteries, more

Wheel-E

Show Notes

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes proposed e-bike restrictions in New York and Oregon, Super73 lowering the performance of its e-bikes, a review of the Tenways CGO600 Pro-C electric bike, new sodium-ion batteries coming from Yadea, Heybike unveiling its first mid-drive e-bike, and more.

The Wheel-E podcast returns every two weeks on Electrek’s YouTube channel, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter.

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Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the Wheel-E podcast today:

The days of superfast SUPER73 e-bikes are over… sort of

Oregon law seeks to ban many street-legal electric bicycles from bike lanes

New York is now coming for your fast and heavy electric bikes

Tenways CGO600 Pro-C commuter e-bike is as light and smooth as it gets

Heybike ALPHA unveiled as new reasonably-priced mid-drive electric bike

World’s largest EV maker unveils new sodium battery electric motorbikes

Here’s the live stream for today’s episode starting at 6:30 a.m. ET (or the video after 7:30 a.m. ET):

https://www.youtube.com/live/LGjdSYljVD4

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