smart GmbH, the maker of the now famous smart fortwo, revealed their smart e-bike. Smart brand, notorious for showing-off their numerous concept vehicles as marketing tools to sell their smart fortwo cars, the smart e-bike is actually going into production. The smart e-bike is developed and manufactured in collaboration with GRACE, an e-bike manufacturer based in Berlin. The ebike is a “Pedal Electric Cycle” a hybrid bike, which is man-powered and electric powered. Spokesperson tells us the ebike offers a range of more than 60 miles. The smart e-bike will be price at just under $3,900 USD.
The smart ebike is going into series production. With this step smart as a pioneer of local emission-free electric mobility is expanding its e-product portfolio.
smart ebike to go on sale in 2012: Urban electric mobility from smart – now also on two wheels
The smart ebike is going into series production. With this step smart as a pioneer of local emission-free electric mobility is expanding its e-product portfolio.
A near-series version of the smart ebike will be on display at the “Eurobike” show 
in Friedrichshafen (31 August – 3 September 2011) and at the Frankfurt Motor Show (13 – 25 September 2011). The smart ebike is being developed and built in cooperation with the renowned e-bike manufacturer GRACE, based near Berlin.
The ebike will be launched in the first half of 2012 and will initially be marketed by dealers in Europe and North America.
smart CEO Dr. Annette Winkler says “The smart ebike is a true smart – but on two wheels. It’s not just an extremely well designed bicycle that is sure to draw admiring glances in the city – it’s also really practical and child’s play to ride. Anyone can zip through town on it with or without exerting themselves – depending on their fitness level and as the mood takes them. And it’
s even easier to find a parking space than with the smart fortwo.”
Power-assisted mobility on two wheels is in. According to the association of the two-wheeler industry (ZIV) sales figures in Germany alone rose from 70,000 in 2007 to 200,000 in 2010. In 2018 the ZIV predicts that e-bikes will make up 15 percent of all bicycle sales in Germany. And in Europe as a whole sales are booming even more. In 2007 approximately 200,000 people opted for an electric bicycle and according to the ZIV by 2009 this figure had already risen to 500,000. And in 2010 around 700,000 e-bikes were sold throughout Europe – a plus of 40 percent compared with the previous year.
With an unconventional design in line with the style of the brand, functions appropriate for city use and high technology standards that are demonstrated by the extremely efficient and high-performance drive package among other features, the smart ebike has an exceptional position.
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