But you know what's not so great about the two-wheelers?
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India is one of the world's largest markets for two-wheelers.
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Two wheelers also constitute the largest number of vehicles in the country.
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Vandals set two-wheelers ablaze and heaved them into rivers and canals.
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It's the company's first foray into electric drivetrain tech for its two-wheelers.
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StaCyc's 'EDRIVE' two-wheelers retail in the range of $649 and $699, Harley said.
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Sales of passenger cars and two-wheelers are growing at a double-digit pace.
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It has since rolled out the company's two-wheelers internationally, mostly in European cities.
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The city-state has no bike lanes on roads, and few regulations for two-wheelers.
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The parking lot at the Norreport train station was a sprawling jumble of two-wheelers.
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Car sales fell 19% last year while sales of two-wheelers declined 14%, Reuters reported.
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From a design perspective Alta's two-wheelers are distinctly minimalist and produce significant power to weight.
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The biggest distinction between e-motorcycles — versus gas two-wheelers — is lightning acceleration and uninterrupted forward movement.
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Gupta said Yulu plans to have 100,000 two-wheelers in its fleet by end of next year.
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Complete solutions for the disposal of pre-owned commercial vehicles, construction equipment, three wheelers and two wheelers.
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The most significant distinctions between their e-motos and gas two-wheelers are power delivery and no shifting.
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It will focus on onboarding two-wheelers and three-wheelers in many of these cities, the firm said.
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Now, that autonomous maintenance system and the beefy two-wheelers it lives inside are ready for the streets.
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The government plans all two-wheelers in India should get anti-lock braking system and combined braking system.
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Often called the "Tesla of scooters," Taiwanese startup Gogoro is known for its sleek, battery-powered two wheelers.
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The company says it's disinfecting its fleets of two-wheelers every time they are brought into a depot.
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The board's popularity has waned, but old two-wheelers continue to cause damage, as recently as October 2019.
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Lyft is also reportedly in talks with another scooter startup, Spin, about adding electric two-wheelers to its app.
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It has the largest density of vehicles in the country, with two wheelers constituting nearly 69% of the vehicles.
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"The StaCyc electric two-wheelers will provide an entry point for the youngest riders," Harley said in a statement.
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Cars will still be able to cross, of course, at lights synchronized for the reduced pace of two-wheelers.
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Pello, in Richmond, Va., has met with early success, selling 400 to 500 bright orange two-wheelers a year.
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Typically that means customers need to be wary when deciding to plunk down cash on some of these two-wheelers.
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Revel's two-wheelers are technically mopeds, though they don't have pedals, and are speed-limited to 30 miles per hour.
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The sport — where riders race high-performance machines on jump-filled stadium tracks — currently fields only gas-powered two-wheelers.
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The big picture: China continues to lead the global market, producing 99% of the world's electric buses and two-wheelers.
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Among those warned off by police was a man on a Vespa—the ban applies to motorized two-wheelers too.
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The two-wheelers glide down a bike lane on Hoyt Street, which links Downtown Brooklyn with thriving brownstone-lined neighborhoods.
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The positive contribution of cement, diesel and even two wheelers augurs well for growth recovery, especially for the rural economy.
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Year-on-year sales at Hero Motocorp, the biggest purveyor of two-wheelers, slid by more than a third in December.
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Now, it finds its roughly 20183,000 e-bikes grounded as the two-wheelers face safety questions over their design and upkeep.
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Taiwan's largest maker of two-wheelers, Kymco, finally bought into electric drivetrains this year with a scooter that uses swappable batteries.
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The dockless two-wheelers have been sold as a way to ease gridlock while letting riders zip through streets with pizazz.
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Currently, there are 7,500 two-wheelers on the platform, with another 7,500 coming by the end this month; and 3,23 cars.
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StaCyc's 'EDRIVE' two-wheelers retail in the range of $649 and $699, Harley said, without disclosing the price of its purchase.
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The sport — where riders race high-performance machines on jump-filled stadium dirt tracks — currently fields only gas-powered two-wheelers.
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India's sizable rural- and middle-income population drives demand for two-wheelers, which accounted for 963% of FY296 domestic vehicle sales.
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In the 1950s and '60s, as people started buying more cars, two-wheelers started to be pushed off the road. Literally.
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"There are several stranded cars and two-wheelers on the roads that we are clearing," said traffic police official Amitesh Kumar.
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The current push could disrupt the market order for two-wheelers and open up avenues for local start-ups, analysts say.
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But this is particularly true of the motorcycles and scooters I've ridden, like Zero's electric two-wheelers, or the BMW C Evolution.
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Now it is the world's biggest producer, making 22.5m new two-wheelers a year, 22019m for domestic consumption and 1m for export.
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Schwarzenegger, 68, and Baena, 18, were all smiles as they rode their own two-wheelers in their casual T-shirts and shorts.
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We visited the headquarters of Vespa and the Piaggio Group in Pontedera, Italy to see how the iconic two-wheelers are made.
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Bike and scooter share companies are doing that by flooding markets with more two-wheelers than their populations and infrastructure can support.
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In the 1950s and '60s, as people started buying more cars, two-wheelers were beginning to be pushed off the road. Literally.
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Still, car sales fell 19% last year while sales of two-wheelers, an indicator of rural economic health, declined 14%, Reuters reported.
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Less mentioned in the scooter discourse is Xiaomi, the Chinese company that mass produces the two-wheelers that helped fuel the phenomenon.
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So of course we have taxis, or course we have private-hire vehicles, we've also got two-wheelers in Vietnam and in Asia.
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The company sold about 2.1 million two-wheelers in the September quarter, compared with 2 million in the same period a year earlier.
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This week, Google Maps unveiled a new motorcycle mode in several Asian markets where two-wheelers are a very popular form of transportation.
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In anticipation of regulations that took effect today, Bird, Lime Bike, and Spin have warehoused their fleets of the shared electric two-wheelers.
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The company sold about 2 million two-wheelers during the quarter, an increase of about 11 percent over the same period last year.
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The company sold over 2 million two-wheelers during the quarter, an increase of 23 percent over the same period a year earlier.
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Today is National Bicycle Day and these stars are ditching their cars and turning to their two-wheelers to get them around town.
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Not, presumably, the kind that Mao led, but one that would have made the chairman feel at home with its profusion of two-wheelers.
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San Francisco's temporary ban on the shared electric two-wheelers that appeared on streets and sidewalks overnight earlier this spring started on June 4th.
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We can expect to see more of them relatively soon, however, as the two-wheelers are set for "early 2020" according to the statement.
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The Uber and Lyft revolution faces competition from the various dockless two wheelers and Via's ridesharing as a service, launching in Los Angeles soon.
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Unlike with ride-hailing, many cities have controlled the scooter surge, requiring permits and commanding fees for the right to deploy the two-wheelers.
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The feature selects routes that are tailored for two-wheelers, and the company says the system will learn and improve the more you use it.
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There has been a rash of scooter vandalism in Fort Lauderdale, with police saying more than 140 two-wheelers have been damaged since April 2019.
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The appeal for bike-shares like Ofo and LimeBike is the quick and easy access to the two-wheelers at the tap of an app.
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"The StaCyc electric two-wheelers will provide an entry point for the youngest riders to enjoy the thrill of riding," Harley said in a statement.
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The Indian government plans a series of changes in cars and two-wheelers in the country as it continues its efforts to curb road accidents.
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Meanwhile, a new race has started for two-wheelers with motors — and one of the main players is a survivor from the bike-sharing craze.
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But in Asia's emerging economies, Harley hopes to attract riders who want to buy two-wheelers not just for commuting but also as an aspiration.
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But Bajaj Auto, which has decades of experience building two-wheelers in the nation, will be taking care of the manufacturing from here, he said.
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But lest we forget thy make two-wheelers, the company showed its range with this lineup, from a small-displacement bike to a grand tourer.
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This shouldn't come as a huge shock to anyone who has noticed the explosion of dockless, shareable two-wheelers over the last year and a half.
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But the difference between the on-demand scooters being toyed with in Madrid vs Barcelona's locally owned two wheelers is a level of purpose and intent.
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"(In Jakarta), there's only one real way of getting from A to B in the fastest way, and that's by two wheelers," he tells Talk Asia.
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Soon after, it was reported that Lyft is in active talks with another scooter startup, Spin, about adding electric two-wheelers to its ride-sharing app.
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The government of the state of Karnataka — of which Bangalore is the capital — has reportedly seized 62 two-wheelers since Uber launched UberMoto on March 3.
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I think two wheelers will play a role in individual mobility, individual mobility will be our driving theme also for the next 10 years or so.
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But now, e-scooter giant Lime is cracking down on riders' potential flagrant disregard for staying off the sidewalks while renting its battery-powered two-wheelers.
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A fire department official said protesters had burnt dozens of two-wheelers and smashed a number of car and shop windows in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Tuesday night.
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The hardware, slated for testing on Ducati motorcycles, is lightweight, compact, and low-power enough to work with two-wheelers, says company cofounder and CTO Onn Haran.
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Automakers in general are trying to leverage their experience in manufacturing, batteries, and powertrains in pursuit of more electric-powered two-wheelers, like motorcycles, bikes, and scooters.
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A May report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that the global stock of electric two-wheelers was about 260 million by the end of 2018.
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There is unsold stock of more than 800,000 BS III-compliant vehicles, mainly two-wheelers, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), a trade body.
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Toyota's Active Lean is meant to improve maneuverability in two-wheelers by automatically moving the wheels up or down so the driver can turn without falling over.
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The seed-stage company had previously focused on creating digital safety technology — like its 360-degree radar detection system — to augment two-wheelers made by other manufacturers.
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There were loads of exemptions, including the two-wheelers that dominate the roads, hybrids, and cars driven by VIPs or women (with no men in the vehicle).
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It did not disclose how many scooters it currently has but said that more than 100,000 users have commuted for over 20 million kilometres using its two-wheelers.
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But the quick uptake has given way to yet another problem: The bikes are now polluting the public square, with mangled two-wheelers piled high on some sidewalks.
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It did not disclose how many scooters it currently has but said that more than 100,000 users have commuted for over 20 million kilometers using its two-wheelers.
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Small motorized two-wheelers cost 25,000 rupees to 50,000 rupees ($370 to $353) compared with 200,000 rupees to 500,000 rupees ($3,000 to $7,500) for the cheapest new cars.
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TVS, the third-largest maker of two-wheelers in India, is also exploring suppliers in other regions and is looking to localise its supplies within India, it added.
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I've been afraid of motorized two-wheelers since getting hit by a motorcycle in Jakarta at the age of 13, leaving me with a fractured neck and skull.
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Analysts say sales of two-wheelers are likely to be impacted the most since around 40 percent of transactions are financed by cash, according to Credit Suisse estimates.
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Two-wheelers — motorcycles and scooters, which experts say made up the majority of the nearly nine million vehicles on the road as of March in Delhi — are also exempt.
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Harley also released info on two new concept electric two-wheelers, resembling a mountain bike and a scooter, "that further explore the potential of urban mobility," the company said.
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"With sales in tens of millions per year, the Chinese market for electric two-wheelers is hundreds of times larger than anywhere else in the world," the report said.
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But in an ironic twist, the two-wheelers are now starting to create their own traffic jams, with unused or broken bikes stacked high on sidewalks and street corners.
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Dealers are holding 35-40 days worth of inventory for passenger vehicles and 55-60 days worth of inventory for two-wheelers, according to a survey conducted by FADA.
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Two-wheelers are the most popular form of transport in many of India's traffic-clogged cities, but schemes to rent a bike and driver by the kilometre are rare.
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They were an immediate hit with people looking to get around town quickly and easily, while other city-dwellers have been irritated by the two-wheelers left cluttering pavements.
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They were an immediate hit with people looking to get around town quickly and easily, while other city-dwellers have been irritated by the two-wheelers left cluttering pavements.
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And with an approachable frame, affordable price, and absurdly powerful battery, the Scorpion could be a good entry-level e-bike for anyone who's bored with traditional two-wheelers.
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The ubiquitous two-wheelers have become a tech industry fixation since Bird, a Santa Monica-based startup run by a former Uber employee, launched a scooter-sharing service last fall.
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There is unsold stock of more than 800,000 BS III-compliant vehicles, mainly two-wheelers, worth about 120 billion rupees ($1.85 billion), Mumbai-based Angel Broking said in a note.
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But in India, where fewer than four million cars are sold annually, two wheelers, autorickshaws (called tuk-tuks in other Asian countries), and buses remain the dominant modes of transportation.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has set a target of electric vehicles making up 30% of sales of new cars and two-wheelers by 2030, from less than 1% currently.
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Drivezy — which graduated Y Combinator and Google's Launchpad Accelerator program — claims to have a fleet of around 8,000 vehicles that includes 5,000 two-wheelers (motorbikes and scooters) and 3,14.33 cars.
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Automobile companies, especially passenger vehicles and two-wheelers, are likely to report subdued November sales with reports indicating that inventory with dealers is the highest in the past five years.
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Livguard, a private company owned by the Indian conglomerate SAR Group, manufactures batteries for pretty much any vehicle you can imagine — cars, two-wheelers, tractors, buses, trucks, and even rickshaws.
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As part of the partnership, Bajaj will co-design and manufacture future generation of Yulu two-wheelers, Amit Gupta, cofounder and chief executive of Yulu, told TechCrunch in an interview.
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Sales of cars and two-wheelers — which are proxy measures for urban and rural demand, respectively — declined at a much slower pace in October due to festive demand, Kishore said.
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I simply don't spend a lot of time on two-wheelers, and so the LiveWire — as exciting as it to ride — is faster and more capable than what I'm looking for.
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The industry group forecasts commercial vehicle sales growth of between 10 percent and 12 percent this fiscal year, with sales for two wheelers to grow by 5 percent to 7 percent.
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With the debut, the New York and Stockholm based startup now moves into testing phase and taking orders for its first production electric two-wheelers, expected to manufacture by late 22008.
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Ofo is targeting students with bright yellow two-wheelers costing only about 28 yuan that don't have GPS and rent for just 285 yuan per hour, typically half that of Mobike.
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Zoomcar has already moved into two-wheelers, and its big differentiator is a program that allows existing car owners to lease out their vehicles by adding them to the Zoomcar fleet.
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According to FADA data, passenger vehicle inventories now stand at 50-60 days up from around 45 days earlier, while those of two-wheelers are even higher at 493-90 days.
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According to FADA data, passenger vehicle inventories now stand at 2000-60 days up from around 45 days earlier, while those of two-wheelers are even higher at 80-90 days.
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Skip, an electric scooter rental startup that operates in and around Washington, DC, said it would start disclosing details about the maintenance and repair requirements of its fleet of two-wheelers.
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They say that they have impounded thousands of dockless e-scooters around San Diego on behalf of business owners and landlords who are fed up with the deluge of dockless two-wheelers.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has set a target of electric vehicles making up 30 percent of new sales of cars and two-wheelers by 2030 from less than 1 percent today.
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In the past year, Tencent-backed Mobike and Xiaomi-backed ofo have been locked in a battle for bicycle-sharing supremacy — dumping tens of thousands of two-wheelers onto Chinese city streets.
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When I grew up in Brooklyn, the only people I remember riding bikes were delivery people, teenaged boys, and grown men who messed around on two-wheelers a third of their size.
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Kiosks full of batteries meant to be plugged into the company's electric bikes will soon make their way to street corners around the world, so riders can charge their two-wheelers themselves.
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Almost unseen two years ago, the Chinese-made two-wheelers are a common site this week in the city, which hosts the first congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party in 36 years.
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San Francisco, for instance, brought in permits for scooter companies after the city was flooded with the two-wheelers, while France earlier this year moved to block people from riding them on sidewalks.
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However things play out, Harley-Davidson's commitment to produce two-wheelers that connect to wall sockets versus gas pumps — and buzz instead of rumble — signals electricity could upend convention in the motorcycle industry.
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Bikes and e-bikes, the motorized two-wheelers used by many delivery drivers for restaurants, are supposed to ride in the same direction as the street traffic, but sometimes go the opposite way.
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"China is 'a country on two wheels," said Yang Lei, Hellobike's co-founder and chief executive officer, adding that there are one billion trips that are completed on two-wheelers in China each day.
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After flooding dozens of cities with tens of thousands of pay-per-minute electric two-wheelers, the bike and scooter companies have hit a snag: cities are increasingly passing new rules to regulate their use.
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Harley expects the lightweight segment to act as a "bridge" to its brand, said McAllister, giving it a chance to make deeper inroads into a market where over 20 million two-wheelers are sold annually.
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In the next few weeks the first wave of electric vehicles under Ola's pilot scheme, including two-wheelers, rickshaws and cars, will roll out in the southern state of Telangana and Nagpur city in central India.
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The steep decline in sales to dealers is worrying industry executives who are renewing calls for a tax cut on cars, two-wheelers and trucks while auto analysts are cutting their sales forecasts for the year.
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The steep decline in sales to dealers is worrying industry executives who are renewing calls for a tax cut on cars, two-wheelers and trucks while auto analysts are cutting their sales forecasts for the year.
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According to an Economic Times report, India is one of the largest markets for two-wheelers, and about a dozen startups now offer bike-taxi services ranging from Baxi in Gurgaon to Bikxie, Pillionaire, Heybob and Headlyt.
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According to the SFMTA, both companies are responsible for education and enforcement of the city's e-scooter rules, which include specific parking requirements and operating the motorized two-wheelers on streets and in bike lanes where possible.
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If using an app to track down a nearby electric scooter to rent is too much of a crapshoot, Bird is now offering monthly rentals of its battery-powered two-wheelers for a flat rate of $24.99.
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"A policy or incentive to help manufacturers of cars or two-wheelers will go a longer way in making electric mobility more affordable than subsidizing individual buyers," said Kaushik Madhavan, vice president, mobility at consultant Frost & Sullivan.
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Kale said the recent slowdown in lending by non-banking financial companies or shadow banks had hit sales of cars, two-wheelers and commercial vehicles like trucks as some buyers struggled to get finance to make purchases.
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In India, NBFCs have in recent years helped fund nearly 212-235% of commercial vehicles both new and used, 27% of passenger cars and nearly 249% of the two-wheelers in the country, according to rating agency ICRA.
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But in developing markets like India, vehicle ownership is already a relative rarity, even if the desire to use a car is not: currently only 7 percent of Indians own a car and 16 percent own two-wheelers.
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In India, NBFCs have in recent years helped fund nearly 27-249% of commercial vehicles both new and used, 230% of passenger cars and nearly 65% of the two-wheelers in the country, according to rating agency ICRA.
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Investors poured $3.5 billion into scooter- and bike-rental startups globally for the first half of 2018, according to data firm CB Insights, even though basic issues such as how cities will regulate the motorized two-wheelers remain unresolved.
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SAN DIEGO, (Reuters) - Two men in San Diego have impounded thousands of electric scooters they say have been left littered about the city and endangering pedestrians, sparking a battle with companies that have flooded cities with the two-wheelers.
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According to the latest FADA data, average passenger vehicle inventories held by dealers range from 2000-35 days, while those of two wheelers stand at 60-65 days, suggesting a moderation in inventory levels for the two key segments from May.
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The appeal to passengers is the lower cost of motorbike transit compared to buses or cabs ($1.85 is Gokada's average fare) and the ability of two-wheelers to cut through the heavy congestion in cities such as Lagos and Nairobi.
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The Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday that the two companies - fierce rivals in the global motorcycle business - would join forces in the production and development of two-wheelers as a sharp decline in their home market takes a toll.
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"Two-wheelers have become an automatic choice because of the traffic chaos and parking issues in almost every city," he said, adding that a lack of public transport and poor roads outside cities were also boosting sales in rural India.
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Several start-ups — backed by big Silicon Valley venture firms and Uber's Indian competitor, Ola — are betting that shared "two-wheelers" are better suited to wallets and transportation needs than the cars that are the heart of the ride-hailing industry.
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Thanks to a number of scooter share startup launches, there are now a few distinct brands of these app-supported two-wheelers scattered throughout the city—Bird, Spin, and LimeBike—and if that sounds ridiculous to you, you're not alone.
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Over the past year the city has become awash with the zippy two-wheelers, with 12 start-ups offering the chance to download an app and dash across the Seine for not much more than the cost of a metro ticket.
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And while the image of ghostly two-wheelers rolling down sidewalks completely on their own may seem crazy, Tortoise co-founder and CEO Dmitry Shevelenko is convinced that scooter companies and cities will embrace the idea when they hear what's at stake.
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One hurdle to entering electric motorcycles in AMA gas racing is how to classify battery powered two-wheelers compared to internal combustion engines that the AMA classes based on displacement, AMA off-road racing manager Erek Kudla explained to TechCrunch in April.
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My background I have to say as a motorcyclist I was in charge of a motorcycle brand worldwide for a few years, so I think two wheelers have a future, and we have to decide now what could be the way forward.
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Mahajan said that Drivezy is currently market leader when it comes to self-drive two-wheelers — "self-drive" meaning vehicles that can be rented for a trip — with motorbikes and scooters accounting for "the bulk" of transactions, but just 20 percent of revenue.
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The company says it made its slick and somewhat affordable electric two-wheelers available for purchase in San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Chicago, Washington, DC, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Honolulu, and it's spinning up sales operations in some of those cities right now.
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Beijing was once a city of bikes, the capital of a country known as the Bicycle Kingdom for the millions of two-wheelers that dominated urban transport in a state-planned economy where cars were reserved for official business and the politically powerful.
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GOVE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hurt by high fuel prices, Vinod Gore, a farmer in Gove village in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, ditched his petrol scooter for an electric model, underlining how two-wheelers are driving the country's goal of electrification of its vehicles.
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European startups VOI, Dott, Tier and U.S. rivals Bird and Lime have already put thousands of e-scooters on the roads of European cities, betting commuters will take to the two-wheelers in a region where far fewer own cars than in the United States.
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Gogoro, a tiny Taiwan-based scooter company with big dreams, today takes another step toward its ultimate goal of changing the way humans move and consume electricity: It's expanding to include Japan on the roster of countries where residents can ride the company's electric two-wheelers.
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Indian ride-hailing firm Ola will invest $100 million in Vogo, a domestic scooter sharing start-up, and add the company's fleet of two-wheelers to the Ola app to broaden the range of vehicles it offers, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
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The list goes on — these are the many electric scooter options you can rent in various cities throughout the U.S. For each company offering rentals to ride the electric two-wheelers, there's an accompanying app with its own map showing where (just) its scooters are located.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian ride-hailing firm Ola will invest $100 million in Vogo, a domestic scooter sharing start-up, and add the company's fleet of two-wheelers to the Ola app to broaden the range of vehicles it offers, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Engine maker Greaves Cotton Ltd, which launched its first heavyweight electric scooter last month, plans to set up at least 100 charging stations for two-wheelers across India in the next three months, as the government pushes for more electric vehicles (EV) to combat rising pollution.
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In a bid to revive sales and the interest of younger riders, in 2019 Harley-Davidson became the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S. — the LiveWire — which is a forerunner to an HD product-line of electric-powered two-wheelers.
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In a bid to revive sales and the interest of younger riders, in 2019 Harley-Davidson became the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S. — the LiveWire — which is a forerunner to an HD product-line of electric-powered two-wheelers.
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The 160-year-old company, which bought a majority stake in electric scooter maker Ampere Vehicles last year, competes with other makers of environment-friendly two-wheelers including Ather Energy, Hero Electric and Okinawa.. In February, India proposed incentives as part of its efforts to encourage higher sales of electric vehicles, having said it hopes to electrify all new vehicles by 2030.
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