Posted on 08 October 2009.
The United States has never taken to the electric bicycle in large numbers, but all that seems set to change. The high cost of gas, and the high cost of cars, is promoting a change to new, more economic transport, and with an electric bike that can go 20 miles an hour, for an hour or so, anyway, that future may be here.
Best Buy has teamed up with ebike retailer Ultra Motor to sell the electric A2Bs (cost $2,699) at 20 locations in California and Oregon. They’re also selling them in warm-weather states, in bike-friendly locations such as Portland (OR), Seattle, New York and San Francisco — and even in Connecticut,.
Read more at The Daily Green.
