GM is getting into the electric bike business

General Motors said it intends to put up two new electric bicycles for sale to the public one year from now — one collapsing and one smaller — as the automaker makes a more extensive push into zap and different thoughts that endeavor to move past its customary plan of action of creating and offering gas-control vehicles.

The automaker didn't have a considerable measure of data to share about the e-bicycles or its definitive plans. For example, Hannah Parish, chief of General Motors Urban Mobility Solutions, wouldn't state if GM intends to dispatch a bicycle sharing administration because of these two new items. "I can't state anything is on or off the table now," she included.

This is what is on the menu. The bicycles will be "savvy" and "associated" and by one way or another roused by GM's OnStar, the organization's membership based interchanges, in-vehicle security and crisis administrations highlight found in autos. Ward wouldn't intricate what that may resemble. We'll need to hold up until one year from now.

The bicycles are likewise furnished with security highlights including battery-powered front and back LED lights. What's more, the electric impetus on the bicycles were structured by GM engineers who made a restrictive drive framework.

"We realize that individuals who live in urban regions, such as myself in downtown Toronto require distinctive chances to utilize diverse sorts of transportation when they going and doing distinctive things. We realize that blockage in urban areas is an issue and the e-bicycles feed directly into our endeavors," Parish, executive of General Motors Urban Mobility Solutions told TechCrunch.

Until further notice, GM is centered around naming the e-bicycles. Furthermore, it's swinging to general society to help. The organization propelled a brand-naming effort Friday as a component of its more extensive e-bicycle declaration. People who need to name the e-bicycles can go to www.eBikeBrandChallenge.com. The member with the triumphant choice will get $10,000. Nine different sprinters up will each get $1,000.

Passages will be acknowledged until November 26. The triumphant entries will be declared January 31, 2019.