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Electric bicycles are SOOOOO last year. Now we’ve got electric, pedaling robots instead!

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This one is hard to quantify. It’s a bicycle, sort of, but not quite. It’s electric, of course, and it’s made in New Zealand, so you’ll have to cut it some slack for its goofiness. It’s a pretty cool concept, though. Assuming you can get the hang of riding the thing, which may be a challenge. Alright, I’m getting ahead of myself. Up-front, though, I may as well tell you that it won’t be available in the U.S. next year.

Read More: YikeBike Concept Becomes Reality, Will Hit the Streets Next Year

Check this out. This comes from, of course, a V is for Voltage enthusiast. This guy took a $100 bicycle, made some modifications, and then added battery packs from DeWalt power tools and Voila! Electric bike! Awesome.

Read More: Homemade DIY Hybrid Electric Bicycle Using Batteries From a Power Drill

Geoff Bjorgan is a tinkerer, there’s no doubt about it. This latest creation of his is an awesome rendition of what he can do if given the time to do it and a few items to cannibalize for parts.

Read More: The Steampunk DIY Electric Bicycle

Tesla has announced that they expect to be profitable before the end of July, as was expected and announced in February. While some questioned that the company would ever become profitable, battery sales greatly augmented pre-sales and purchases of the Tesla Roadster. New deals with Daimler and others didn’t hurt either.

Read More: Tesla Moves Towards Profitability Despite Lawsuit By Former CEO

When you look at the VoltRider’s marketing materials, the first thing you see is some cheesy comments about “E-grins.” Then you notice that “E-grins” is actually trademarked. They even claim to have gotten the term put into Wikipedia. Now I remember why I never cite Wikipedia as a source.

Read More: A Closer Look At The 2009 VoltRider Electric Bike

Thule has introduced a new bicycle rack for carrying an e-bike on your car. Most people who travel with their bicycles have a bike rack on top of or behind their car for carrying them. Anyone who owns an electric bicycle also knows that they often don’t really fit–or are very heavy to lift into place.

Read More: Thule’s New Bike Rack for Electric Bikes

FedEx has been testing two human-electric hybrid 3-wheeled bicycles for small delivery route operations. During the 11-week trial, the little LEVs managed to deliver over 2,400 documents and parcels. They were used in the most densely trafficked part of Paris and proved their worth as an efficient way to getting around for the package carriers.

Read More: FedEx Paris Fleet Gets Electric Vehicles

The Ultra Motor A2B electric bicycle is one of the most uniquely designed e-bikes we’ve seen. When we first reviewed it here back in September 2008, he was impressed. Later, we did a full writeup on LEVAdvisor, our sister blog, as well. Now, Ultra Motor has announced that they’ve got over 250 brick-and-mortar dealers carrying the A2B in the United States.

Read More: Ultra Motor A2B Electric Bike Now in 250 Dealerships Nationally

Optibike makes high performance electric bikes and has announced their new women’s model, the Helia. These are nothing short of HOT, according to my wife. They come in a variety of colors (her favorite is pink) with great details and logo mark handpainted by an artist.

Read More: High Performance Women’s Electric Bike: the Optibike Helia