There is a five-and-a-half mile bike path sitting in the middle of an eight-lane highway, topped with a solar panel that lights up the streets below in South Korea. But this is no regular bike path.

Apparently, solar panels aren't just for roofs anymore. The Dutch company SolaRoad has long planned to build bike paths and roadways with embedded solar panels, using nominally open space for ...

Electric bikes have revolutionized the bicycle industry, bringing one of the oldest modes of transportation into the 21st Century. However, like most of the electronic tech we interact with each day, ...

Ever since the first solar panels were created, researchers have been looking for ways to use this type of technology in the transportation industry. The idea of integrating solar panels in the ...

Sunny day bike rides are about to get even better. Infinite Mobility, an e-bike startup out of Norway, revealed its solar-powered cargo e-bike called the Inga. We’ve seen plenty of cargo e-bikes out ...

Last month we featured an awesome DIY solar cargo trailer that an Electrek reader built for his electric bike. Just in case you needed any more proof that our readers are some of the handiest and most ...

Compared to cars, electric bikes have a tiny carbon footprint. Still, if you’re charging your bike with coal-powered electricity, it isn’t completely clean transportation. A new solar-powered electric ...

Electric bikes are great for making short journeys a touch more effortless and one upcoming electric bike may never even need to be plugged in to charge. The Leaos Solar e-bike has solar panels built ...

Young German industrial designer, Tobias Bexten, has come up with a nifty little idea for city transport. The STEM is a compact electric three-wheeler, powered by a lithium-ion battery, that would be ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON – Calls to "scale up" rang through the Renewable Energy Vermont trade conference and expo Thursday morning. Images of western valleys tiled with acres of solar panels shone down from ...

Bicycle touring is an intimate and invigorating way to travel, but it typically requires packing very light. Since you’re carrying your gear either on your back or in a bike trailer, you’ll probably ...

If we want it, the road could literally be paved to a renewable energy future. A pilot test of the technology turned out a great success. One year after a bike path outside Amsterdam was plastered ...