{"id":133203,"date":"2021-12-28T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T02:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/electric-bike-companys-made-in-america-e-bikes-are-key-to-its-success-heres-why"},"modified":"2021-12-28T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T02:22:42","slug":"electric-bike-companys-made-in-america-e-bikes-are-key-to-its-success-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/electric-bike-companys-made-in-america-e-bikes-are-key-to-its-success-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"Electric Bike Company\u2019s \u2018made in America\u2019 e-bikes are key to its success. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oHzcAeZFyD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit the sprawling new production facilities for California-based Electric Bike Company (that\u2019s an advantage to being an early mover in any industry, you get to pick the good names). The company has been building electric cruiser bicycles in Newport Beach since the mid-2010s. And as founder Sean Lupton-Smith proudly explained to me as I toured the factory grounds, they wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t my first time visiting Electric Bike Company. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/03\/05\/electric-bike-company-american-made-e-bikes\/\">Nearly two years ago I toured the previous EBC factory<\/a> to learn about how e-bikes were being built in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, the company was able to fit inside just one facility, though it was obvious it was bursting at the seams and using every cubic foot of space available (frames and wheels were literally hanging from the rafters several layers deep).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit the sprawling new production facilities for California-based Electric Bike Company (that\u2019s an advantage to being an early mover in any industry, you get to pick the good names). The company has been building electric cruiser bicycles in Newport Beach since the mid-2010s. And as founder Sean [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}