{"id":517,"date":"2008-07-01T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/07\/01\/the-350-electric-bike\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:02:21","slug":"the-350-electric-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/01\/the-350-electric-bike\/geek\/","title":{"rendered":"The $350 Electric Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the other end of the spectrum from the $13,000 Optibike that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/06\/15\/the-13000-electric-bike\/\">wrote about<\/a> a few weeks back is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/catalog\/product.do?product_id=8467096\">E-Zip 2008 Trailz Hybrid Electric Bike<\/a>. The E-Zip is built by Currie Technologies and uses a DC motor with a 24-volt sealed lead acid battery pack that locks onto the rear rack. The bikes are being sold through a number of retailers, including Walmart! (gasp!)<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ezip.jpg' alt='ezip.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>From reports I&#8217;ve read online, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/05\/electric_bike_ezip_trailz.php\">Treehugger<\/a>, for one) the bike is a bit on the heavy side, but its performance is pretty decent, especially considering the price. Range is about 15 miles or so, top speed of about 20mph&#8230; Sounds a lot like <a href=\"\/2008\/06\/15\/the-trials-tribulations-of-building-an-e-bike-on-the-cheap\/\">my e-bike<\/a>, but with a lot less hassle involved in getting it on the road. <\/p>\n<p>Heck, if I&#8217;d known about these things before buying mine, I probably would&#8217;ve gone that route instead. If only it weren&#8217;t for the Walmart connection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the other end of the spectrum from the $13,000 Optibike that I wrote about a few weeks back is the E-Zip 2008 Trailz Hybrid Electric Bike. The E-Zip is built by Currie Technologies and uses a DC motor with a 24-volt sealed lead acid battery pack that locks onto the rear rack. The bikes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-geek"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}