Best Electric Bikes (2025): Hauling, Commuting, Mountain Biking

Honorable Mentions

Radio Flyer Via Pro for $2,599: Editor Julian Chokkattu could not person had a amended acquisition than this easy-to-use and easy-to-assemble people 2 electrical cargo bike. For much info, cheque retired our usher to the Best Electric Cargo Bikes.

Aventon Ramblas for $2,899: Aventon made a mountain bike! It's a batch of motorcycle for an affordable price, but conscionable a small excessively dense to instrumentality it retired for its intended usage case.

Linus eDutchi for $1,799: Need a comfy cruiser? The Linus eDutchi is simply a comfy people 1 ebike with beauteous colors and loads of proprietary accessories.

Electra Loft Go! for $1,400: I besides emotion the Electra Loft Go!, which is different comfy sit-up formation cruiser, but the Priority has a somewhat much almighty centrifugal for the aforesaid price.

Xtracycle Estoker for $4,499: This is astir apt the motorcycle that I spot astir often successful my Portland, Oregon, neighborhood. It has a durable, sturdy Chromoly alloy framework and larger 24-inch wheels on with a Shimano mid-drive centrifugal that marque it cleanable for much grueling conditions. Unfortunately, you bash person to beryllium implicit 5'6" (which I americium not) to thrust it.

Gazelle Eclipse for $5,999: If you privation to cognize conscionable however large the Bosch strategy tin be, the Eclipse (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is the much costly mentation of the Radster Road above. It has a nicer shifter, a smarter motor—even the overgarment occupation is nicer. It is overmuch much expensive, however.

Heybike Tyson for $1,599: You get a lot of worldly for not precise overmuch wealth with this fat-tire, folding ebike (6/10, WIRED Review), including suspension, blinkers, a throttle, and 1 of the astir obnoxious horns I've ever heard. The components are not super-high-quality, but it's an affordable, comfy mode to dip your toes into ebike waters.

The Gocycle G4I+ for $5,999: Gocycle's high-end, fast-folding luxury bikes are designed by a erstwhile McLaren engineer. This quieter, lighter iteration has amended torque, a caller carbon-fiber beforehand fork, and an adjacent much achy price.

The Bunch Original Electric Cargo Bike for $5,799: I didn't attraction for the Bunch, but my household did. It's a modular if somewhat expensive, container motorcycle arsenic you mightiness spot successful Europe. It'll enactment good if you unrecorded successful a level country and don't person to spell precise fast.

Bikes We Dislike

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Niu Electric Bike BQi-C3 Pro for $2,199: Commerce manager Martin Cizmar tested this motorcycle and had a litany of complaints. The riding presumption is excessively aggressive, and the motorcycle framework doesn't acceptable communal components similar a h2o vessel and his pannier. The disc brakes weren't suited to stopping it from 28 mph.

The Civilized Cycle ($4,999): This motorcycle tin transportation a full-grown idiosyncratic connected the backmost and is simply a bully enactment for radical who privation a Vespa-like benignant without having to get a scooter licence (7/10, WIRED Review). However, it doesn't acceptable anyone shorter than 5' 10". Ooohkay.

The Retrospec Jax Rev ($1,000): We wanted to emotion this sleek, stylish folding bike, but we couldn't assistance worrying astir its durability.