I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with real-world e-bike testing has helped me find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget.
Below are some…
There are plenty of e-bike conversion kits designed to turn your existing bicycle electric, but most involve at least a bit of wrenching. Spiny 2 takes a different approach, using a removable friction-drive system that can apparently snap onto your bike in just three…
Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028.
That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced market outside the US, after…
Are Tesla's claims for its new 'flying' Roadster real, or is it just full of cold gas?
October 18, 2026
Tesla has finally re-unveiled its next-generation Roadster, originally unveiled in quite different form back in 2017. So since I did a technical breakdown of how it would work last time, I thought I’d give a quick update with what we know about the new version.
(Update: Now that various media videos are out showing a tour of the car, we’re updating this article with answers to some of the…
Tesla confirms Autopilot/FSD was 'engaged' when car crossed a median and killed a man
October 17, 2026
A Tesla crossed the grass median of Route 55 in New Jersey, hit a tree, slid into oncoming traffic, and struck an SUV head-on. The SUV’s driver, 68-year-old Phillip Eastman, was killed.
Police reported it as a driver who lost control. What they didn’t say, and likely…
Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois.
He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this year. The head of…
I’ve tested a lot of cargo e-bikes over the last decade-plus of reviewing electric bicycles. There are good cargo e-bikes. There are great cargo e-bikes. And then there’s Xtracycle.
More specifically, there’s the new Xtracycle Swoop ASM, which might just be a cut above every other cargo e-bike I’ve tested.
ASM stands for “Automatic Smile Machine,” and the name works on two levels.
Tesla Powerwalls did most of the heavy lifting as California’s home batteries set a new grid record last week. On October 6, more than 85,000 Powerwall owners sent over 600 MW to the grid, the bulk of a combined 745 MW dispatch that Sunrun announced today.
That’s 28%…
Ford opens preorder invites for the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup
October 16, 2026
Want to be among the first to own Ford’s new EV pickup? You can now sign up for a preorder invite for the upcoming $30,000 Ford Fathom.
Ford Fathom preorder invites go live
Although preorders for the Fathom won’t officially open until early 2027, Ford is now inviting…
The world record for the longest journey on an electric motorcycle on a single charge has just been absolutely demolished.
And it was done so by a Zero Motorcycles rider traveling 436.5 km (271.2 miles) before finally running out of juice.
The ride, completed by Belgian rider Jelle Verstaen aboard a Zero DS electric motorcycle, earned a new Guinness World Records title and blew past the previous…
