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The country where half of all bicycles sold are electric bikes – and what it can tell us

March 19, 2021
Electric bicycle sales have shown exponential growth for several years now, but 2020 saw an unprecedented e-bike boom. Electric bicycle demand skyrocketed all over the world in 2020, fueled largely by fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Netherlands, e-bikes have become such a mainstay that they accounted for approximately half of all bicycle sales in 2020. According to a new report by…
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Apollo Phantom 3,200W standing electric scooter launched, then sold out almost immediately

March 19, 2021
Montreal-based electric scooter company Apollo has just released what was likely the most anticipated electric scooter of 2021: the Apollo Phantom. It was so anticipated, in fact, that it sold out almost immediately. The Apollo Phantom is a stark departure from many of the typical electric scooters we’ve seen before. Instead of re-marketing a Chinese design, the Apollo Phantom was designed…
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Chromecast w/ Google TV loses dates, locations on Google Photos ambient screensaver

March 19, 2021
Like the original Chromecasts that came before it, the latest model with its Google TV operating system has the ability to display your pictures from Google Photos. However, the Google Photos ambient screensaver on Chromecast has oddly just lost the dates and locations that showed along with the pictures. On former Chromecast models and the new one, the Google Photos screensaver would show the…
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Amazon tests its Rivian electric vans in hilly San Francisco

March 19, 2021
E-commerce giant Amazon is now testing its custom-made Rivian electric vans in San Francisco. It’s now the second city where Amazon is using its Rivian vans, behind Los Angeles. Amazon chose San Francisco as its No. 2 city because it wanted to put its e-vans to the test on the city’s steep hills and in its variable climate. The streets of San Francisco On February 3, Electrek reported that…
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