If Electric bikes are still in their infancy, then the laws that govern them are downright fetal. Most US states have lagged far behind the public’s understanding of an ebike versus a moped or electric motorcycle. Efforts to codify these differences started with simple yet initially unanswerable questions: Are ebikes legal in bike lanes? What about in parks? How fast can I go? Few states had a definitive answer, and most disagreed with each other.
The ebike industry and more than half of US states have since coalesced around a common, though broad, system—Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3—which is championed by PeopleForBikes,
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