{"id":39786,"date":"2023-01-06T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39786"},"modified":"2023-01-06T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:41:52","slug":"vinfast-shows-off-4-new-electric-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39786","title":{"rendered":"VinFast shows off 4 new electric bikes, as more car companies add e-bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vietnam-based electric car maker VinFast<\/a> showed off more than just electric SUVs and crossovers at CES 2023. The electric automaker surprised us with four new electric bike concepts on display.<\/p>\n

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The company already has a fairly eclectic offering of EVs that spans electric cars, electric scooters, electric buses, and clean energy solutions.<\/a><\/p>\n

But the electric-assist bicycles represent a new direction for VinFast.<\/p>\n

All four bikes were listed as \u201cconcepts,\u201d and there\u2019s no word on whether they\u2019ll actually make it to production.<\/p>\n

But since VinFast is already producing seated electric scooters<\/a>, it wouldn\u2019t be so far-fetched to see the company drop down a weight class or two and produce electric bicycles.<\/p>\n

The four models, seen below in photos taken by Electrek\u2019s<\/em> Scooter Doll, represent a wide range of e-bike styles for diverse riding scenarios.<\/p>\n

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Two of the bikes feature mid-drive motors and two feature hub motors, but they\u2019re each uniquely adapted for a different style of riding.<\/p>\n

The forest green model is a hybrid-style commuter bike with a centrally-located mid-drive motor, a rigid fork, a forward-tucked geometry and what appears to be frame-integrated LED lighting.<\/p>\n

Next to it sits a blue electric mountain bike that uses a similar style frame outfitted with a short-travel suspension fork. The bike isn\u2019t quite as rugged as most hardtail eMTBs<\/a> we\u2019ve seen, underscored by the frame\u2019s rather diminutive seat stay tubes. But considering that these are concept e-bikes, that frame could certainly change by the time it reaches production.<\/p>\n

The company also showed off a mini-bike electric bicycle with rear hub motor that seems to invoke some serious SUPER73 vibes.<\/a> The bike uses an open moped-style frame with a stubby bench seat that covers an underslung battery. A pair of 20\u2033 diameter knobby fat tires and a dual crown suspension fork seem to imply that the bike might have scrambler-esque aspirations for both on and off-road riding.<\/p>\n

Lastly, VinFast also showed off a narrow-tire folding e-bike with a rear-hub motor. The small e-bike seems designed to fulfill a commuter-type role. Such e-bikes have proven popular for commuters that need to carry the e-bike onto a bus or subway and for drivers who like to keep a small folding e-bike in the trunk of their car to extend their reach into a city.<\/p>\n

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VinFast\u2019s electric bike concepts seem to be fleshing out the company\u2019s product line ahead of a possible IPO.<\/a> The move also highlights a growing trend we\u2019ve seen in the auto industry of automakers partnering or innovating their way toward micromobility vehicles like e-bikes and scooters wearing the automaker\u2019s badge.<\/p>\n

Many such automakers have either white-labeled or otherwise teamed up with e-bike makers to produce a two-wheeler bearing the company\u2019s name. That\u2019s how Polestar wound up with its own bike<\/a>, and others such as\u00a0Hummer<\/a> and\u00a0Jeep <\/a>pulled similar moves to create a branded e-bike model. Ducati<\/a> and\u00a0BMW <\/a>also used a similar strategy on their path to e-bikes and e-scooters.<\/p>\n

Other companies have actually developed their own two-wheelers in house from the ground up.\u00a0Harley-Davidson famously spent years<\/a>\u00a0designing its popular electric bikes that were\u00a0eventually spun out as independent e-bike company Serial 1.<\/a>\u00a0GM developed\u00a0a custom-designed electric bike<\/a>\u00a0with a much lauded design, though it met an\u00a0untimely demise<\/a>\u00a0in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0Porsche has a number\u00a0<\/a>of interesting e-bikes as well,\u00a0as does Peugeot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Now it looks like VinFast could be set to join that second group if it eventually brings these e-bike concepts to fruition.<\/p>\n

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Vietnam-based electric car maker VinFast showed off more than just electric SUVs and crossovers at CES 2023. The electric automaker surprised us with four new electric bike concepts on display. The company already has a fairly eclectic offering of EVs that spans electric cars, electric scooters, electric buses, and clean energy solutions. But the electric-assist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}