This electric bicycle company is building a $5,000 electric motorbike

Gatherer January 25, 2021

Electric motorcycles, like electric cars, have been more expensive than their gasoline-powered cousins. Sondors hopes to change that with its new Metacycle. [credit: Sondors ]

It’s unavoidably clear that staving off the worst extremes of climate change will require a wide-scale electrification of our vehicle fleet. There’s a hitch, though—it’s not cheap. We have the technology to make electric vehicles, and it’s getting better all the time. But as of right now, the bill of materials for an electric car is still higher than for an equivalent vehicle with an internal combustion engine, even with impressive reductions in the cost of lithium-ion

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