French automaker Peugeot is definitely 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 below its PEUGEOT Cycles division. Now the corporate has simply launched its newest line of electrical bikes they usually certain 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 provide fashionable design takes, although the commuter bike is essentially 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 revolutionary fashions benefiting from the most effective linked applied sciences. These, via a brand new devoted smartphone software, provide 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 forth.”

The newly revealed Peugeot metropolis e-bike, referred to as the Digital E-Bike, options an exaggerated downtube that bisects a disconnected and minimized high 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 toddler service is designed to carry youngsters or cargo on the lengthy rear rack, and a wheel skirt retains small, dangling toes from contacting the rear wheel.

A full wraparound working board on both aspect of the rear wheel seems to be 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, just like the favored Tern cargo e-bikes. This may assist the bike take up significantly much less house in a storage or condominium.

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 masses, appropriate for household or skilled use.”

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

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