The best electric bikes

This Ribble Hybrid is a super clean, super cool inner-city bike that’ll handle a bit of soft-roading with mudguards and a beautiful pannier rack already mounted to the bike. The 6061 aluminium frame rolls on Mavic Allroad alloy wheels with hydraulic disc brakes attached with an SRAM NX 1x11 Groupset. The decision for a single gear on the crank comes from a wide range of gears on the cassette and also the extra boost of an electric motor to get you up the climbs.
You can turn the battery and motor on at a touch of a button, which offers three levels of assistance from the rear hub Ebikemotion motor. The flat handlebars add comfort and stability with matching grippers and saddle to complete the look.

You get monster range from this Turbo Vado bike. With its super efficient motor and big battery back, you can have up to 80 miles of range as standard, and with the addition of the optional extender pack, you can get up to 120 miles of range. That'll keep you cycling all week on a single charge.

Great for commuting, buzzing about town and weekend rides on the trails with the family, this could be all the bike you ever need. We love it.

This stunning traditional-looking Raleigh Array Crossbar bike is one you’ll be desperate to ride, but if the weather turns, you won’t want to get those beautiful white tyres muddy! You needn’t fear, though, as bikes don’t mind the rain, plus the mudguards on these will help keep anything splashing up on the road to a minimum.

Not only will the 47mm tyres help keep your ride super comfortable, but with the Suntour suspension up front, you’ll enjoy a Rolls Royce-like ride as you cruise along. The Tekto mechanical disc brakes offer all the stopping power you need, and the discreet Suntour motor helps keep the bike looking super clean.

The current 23% saving shrinks the price of this glorious Cannondale Adventure Neo 4 city bike to just under £2,000, and it comes with hydraulic disc brakes, mounts for pannier racks and mudguards, and a powerful Bosch motor. With up to 120km of range, you have an excellent comfortable geometry with a step-through frame, making runs around town super easy, and the 9-speed Shimano gears give you an excellent wide range with the added assist from the motor.

With the batteries hidden in the downtube, the Cannondale Adventure Neo 4 keeps things simple for ultimate enjoyment.

The Cannondale Topstone uses the lightweight and powerful Mahle Ebikemotion X35+ motor system, which fits snuggling in the rear wheel hub and offers different levels of assistance maxing out at 250 watts of pedal assist. These are controlled by a button on the bike’s top tube.

The upside to these systems is that they’re lightweight and very discrete. The downside is they don’t have that much range in them; this will be good for 47 miles depending on which power mode you use – the higher the assist level, the more it will reduce battery life.

The endurance-focused frame comprises aluminium with carbon forks – it can accommodate up to 42mm wide tyres and uses a Shimano GRX 2 x 10-speed gearing system. Hydraulic disc brakes provide confidence-inducing stopping power over muddy trails or soaked tarmac.

Providing a bit of balance between the two is the Niner RLT E9 RDO Gravel eBike; while it has more of a road bike set-up, the downtube holds a 500Wh Bosch battery pack with the Bosch GEN4 Performance Line CX giving you ample assists on the climbs.

The slightly knobbly Schwalbe G-One Bite Evo TLE tyres will give you some grip if it gets muddy but are much better suited to tarmac and slightly loose gravel tracks. Shimano GRX gears are adequate, but what you’re paying the money for here is a full carbon frame - which will be okay over the slightly bumpier stuff due to its flexion – and the powerful Bosch motor.

While the Haibike Hardnine 4 is a ‘budget’ bike, it does not compromise on what you need – it has a super powerful and very responsive Bosch Performance line motor situation where the bottom bracket is, giving you direct power to your pedals where you feel the boost. It’ll provide you with 65Nm of torque to help you over the boulders and tree roots with a maximum of 250watts to help you up the hills.

The 400Wh battery is situated in the downtube, and on the bike, you get an 11-36t Sunrace cassette with entry-level Shimano Alivio M3100 9-speed gears. Two-piston hydraulic disc brakes and Suntour XCM32 Boost DS front forks with 120mm of travel will make tree roots a thing to wheelie over and not wince.

Specialized has combined an M5 alloy chassis with one of the most powerful and smoothest running motors to bring you the Turbo Levo Comp. It has four assist modes and a massive 700Wh battery pack to give you up to five hours of riding time, depending on the use and conditions.

With a middle-range SRAM GX Groupset, things start getting serious, giving you 12 gears and a 10-52t range – massive for the inclines. Four-piston calliper hydraulic disc brakes offer modulated and mighty stopping power with just a couple of fingers on the brake lever. An internal cable-routed dropper seat post allows you to move the saddle out of the way for the steep drops. 150mm of rear suspension travel and 150-160mm in the fork efficient shock absorption gives you the confidence to attack the descents and jumps.

This is the entry point in the Orbea road eBike product line-up; the low price of the D50 makes it ideal for casual road cyclists and features many technologies usually found within high-end models.

The Ebikemotion X35 Plus motor is housed in the rear wheel axel, not in the bottom bracket which you may be used to seeing; this will give you an electronic boost, not as instant and powerful as a bottom bracket motor but without resistance if you’re riding with the motor switched off. Battery display and assistance level are shown to you by the iWoc ONE interface with the 248Wh battery housed in the downtube.

Made of hydroformed aluminium and carbon forks to help reduce road buzz, it’s a bike with a geometry layout for all-day comfort in the saddle.

Looking at the Ribble Endurance SL e-Enthusiast, you’d struggle to see it was, in fact, an eBike; the battery is well hidden in the down tube, and the MAHLE SmartBike Systems X35+ drive system is hidden in the rear axle. The iWoc ONE controller is on the top tube to turn the motor on and cycle through three different assist modes.

The only problem with this system is that there is no indication on the bike of how much battery you have left. You can pair this to your smartphone via a third-party app that will give you this information - this does mean either mounting your phone on your handlebars or checking it regularly in your back pocket.

The groupset with hydraulic disc brakes gives you precision gear changes and mighty stopping power with Ksyrium S Disc wheels on 28mm tyres to help keep rolling resistance low and weight down. The full carbon frame and forks help this bike achieve a weight of around 11kg, depending on your size. That’s enough to make some standard road bikes jealous.

The Tern HSD is a well know long-tail cargo bike which offers accessories which will help you make the Tern your own and tailor it to your needs. It features an ultra-durable and lightweight alloy frame with a secure and easy-to-use locking system that folds down in five seconds. Plus, it's armed with a Bosch Active Line Plus (Gen 3) electric motor drive, a Shimano 1x9-Speed drivetrain and Shimano hydraulic disc brakes. It's fitted with lights, a carrier rack and mudguards.

With smaller wheels and all the weight kept down low, it's a very stable and capable cargo bike. It’ll feel much more like your regular bike than you might think.

With a low centre of gravity but in a Long John layout, the Raleigh Stride 2 Electric Cargo Bike is an excellent option for those who want to ditch the car whenever possible. A practical, elegant choice, the Stride 2 has a big carrying load - up to 80kg - and is well suited to shopping, kids and pets.

The electrical assistance means riding won't become a slog. A Bosch 500Wh battery provides a range of up to 40 miles before a recharge is necessary, and it's paired with a Bosch Performance CX Cargo Line motor. The Purion display allows you to monitor your journey. The bike has several accessories, including integrated front and rear lights, mudguards, a rear carrier, a stand and a lock. You'll be well-prepared for all conditions and rides.

The Stepless shifting is perfect for a loaded-up cargo bike and allows you to maintain a consistent cadence regardless of going up or down. Hub gears are low maintenance to provide a fuss-free experience. The robust wheel and tyre combination is up to the challenge of everyday heavy loads, and disc brakes ensure safe stopping is possible in all conditions.

Read the full Raleigh Stride 2 eCargo Bike review

Brompton has produced this C Line Explore eBike, which utilises a front hub motor and a battery pack that you can carry like a briefcase, probably the most recognisable name in folding bikes. Brompton claims this 300Wh battery pack and the motor would be capable of delivering a range of 20-45 miles depending on how you use the motor, and it will take four hours to charge from the flat.

Bromptons own six-speed drivetrain gives you what you need to get you about town, then up the hills with rim brakes offering the stopping power and integrates lights and mudguards. This could be the bike you buy if you’re going from home to the train station to the office.

Tern probably isn’t very well known for folding bikes. However, they make some fantastic electric cargo bikes. The American brand has, though, designed the Vektron S10, and it carries over some of its siblings’ cargo ability.

The Bosch Performance motor sits on the bottom bracket, giving you high torque levels and smooth and reliable assistance up hills or carrying any additional weight. While the Bosch 400Wh battery pack delivers, which is handy considering the bike weighs around 22kg. Not light. Thankfully hydraulic disc brakes are on hand to bring all that weight to a stop, and a 10-speed Shimano cassette to get you back up to speed again.