French automaker Peugeot is actually not a newcomer to the electrical bicycle world like many different automakers that have solely begun dipping their toe within the e-bike waters. Peugeot has a protracted historical past producing bicycles that dates again over a century beneath its PEUGEOT Cycles division. Now the corporate has simply launched its newest line of electrical bikes they usually positive are headturners.

Among the many three new e-bikes fashions are a metropolis commuter e-bike, a protracted tail cargo e-bike, and a entrance loader cargo e-bike.

All three supply trendy design takes, although the commuter bike is probably the most eye-catching of all of them.

The corporate defined that the brand new e-bike fashions will usher in a number of new options to Peugeot’s lineup:

“On the finish of 2023 and starting of 2024, PEUGEOT Cycles will increase its vary of electrically assisted bicycles with a number of new progressive fashions benefiting from one of the best related applied sciences. These, by a brand new devoted smartphone software, supply customers when it’s launched, amongst different issues, adaptive electrical help, an anti-theft system, an alarm, bike geolocation, real-time navigation, climate forecasts at vacation spot, route statistics, and so on.”

The newly revealed Peugeot metropolis e-bike, often called the Digital E-Bike, options an exaggerated downtube that bisects a disconnected and minimized prime tube.

A mid-drive motor seems to be tied into the rear wheel by a belt drive system, which replaces a classical chain drive discovered on most of Peugeot’s different e-bikes.

The bike options tight-hugging fenders, swept again handlebars and hydraulic disc brakes.

Peugeot’s longtail cargo bike, named the Digital e-Longtail, is described by the corporate as “a motorcycle whose elongated rear can comfortably accommodate as much as two youngsters or a load, notably appropriate for household use.”

The bike includes a extra classically-designed entrance finish with a stretched rear in a position to accomodate a protracted rack with a pair of padded bench seats. A baby service is designed to carry youngsters or cargo on the lengthy rear rack, and a wheel skirt retains small, dangling ft from contacting the rear wheel.

A full wraparound working board on both aspect of the rear wheel seems like it would work in live performance with protrusions on the higher rack deck to permit the e-bike to be parked vertically on its tail, much like the favored Tern cargo e-bikes. This could assist the bike take up significantly much less area in a storage or residence.

The third e-bike on show by Peugeot is a entrance loader e-bike described as “a motorcycle with an prolonged entrance wheelbase to accommodate a crate for transporting as much as three youngsters or heavy hundreds, appropriate for household or skilled use.”

Listed because the Digital e-Entrance Load, this sort of cargo e-bike is sort of standard throughout Europe the place it’s used equally to the best way SUVs and enormous vehicles are used within the US: for transferring a number of youngsters round city or carrying a considerable amount of cargo corresponding to when grocery procuring.

Peugeot hasn’t introduced costs for the brand new e-bikes but, however the firm shall be exhibiting off the brand new designs subsequent month on the PRO-DAYS present from July 2 to 4, 2023, in Paris Exhibition, Porte de Versailles.