Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’d love an electric bicycle, but it’d be even more convenient if the battery fit into my pocket?” OK, fine, but lots of people actually have. And the UK-based ...

Building your own electric bike (ebike) from scratch can be both rewarding and cost-effective. Instead of buying a prebuilt model, you have full control over the components, design, and performance.

There’s a new contender for our preferred fully-electric apocalypse escape vehicle: a homemade e-bike built by Reddit user Xenodius from a mixture of off-the-shelf parts and custom-made 3D-printed ...

The creator of the awesome little trailer is a redditor who preferred to remain anonymous (wisely forgoing the heaping serving of internet fame that Electrek would surely bestow upon him), so we’re ...

A DIY electric bike has gone beyond its capabilities. A build from an Electrek reader Luke built an e-bike during the pandemic in hopes of replacing a family vehicle. He modified his Rad Power Ties ...

An engineer in Ukraine is using recycled materials at hand to build DIY electric bikes. He uses wires, old bike parts, and even plastic bottles, which serve as battery housing. The bike-building takes ...

Thanks to the influx of a multitude of e-bike conversion kits, a vast majority of which are cheap and made in China, hundreds, if not thousands of old bicycles are being saved from the scrappers.

This is one of those stories that should come with a "don't try this at home" disclaimer, but seeing how ridiculous and potentially dangerous the whole stunt is, the warning is pretty much implicit. A ...

Advocates, lawmakers and fire safety experts have spotlighted best practices. Electric bikes have made headlines for the dramatic leap in sales of the devices during the pandemic. However, they've ...