MAARTENSDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities in a central Dutch province opened what they are billing as the world's longest solar bicycle path Wednesday, mixing sustainable energy with emission-free ...

Compared to cars, electric bikes have a tiny carbon footprint. Still, if you’re charging your bike with coal-powered electricity, it isn’t completely clean transportation. A new solar-powered electric ...

There is a five-and-a-half mile bike path sitting in the middle of an eight-lane highway, topped with a solar panel that lights up the streets below in South Korea. But this is no regular bike path.

KROMMENIE, Netherlands — A project dubbed “SolaRoad” gets underway in the Netherlands this week, testing roadways as a potential canvas to collect solar energy. Fittingly for the cycle-crazy Dutch, ...

Apparently, solar panels aren't just for roofs anymore. The Dutch company SolaRoad has long planned to build bike paths and roadways with embedded solar panels, using nominally open space for ...

Botswana's Kalahari Desert is all set to host a unique solar bike racing event, combining sustainable energy with adventure ...

Electric bikes are great for making short journeys a touch more effortless and one upcoming electric bike may never even need to be plugged in to charge. The Leaos Solar e-bike has solar panels built ...

A young company in Italy has recently unveiled their newest e-bike model, a solar powered two-wheeler that its creators claim is the first self-sufficient of the kind. Developed with side solar panels ...

Ever since the first solar panels were created, researchers have been looking for ways to use this type of technology in the transportation industry. The idea of integrating solar panels in the ...

Last month we featured an awesome DIY solar cargo trailer that an Electrek reader built for his electric bike. Just in case you needed any more proof that our readers are some of the handiest and most ...

The world's first solar bike path is set to open in the Netherlands next Wednesday. The SolaRoad will run through Amsterdam's northern suburb of Krommenie and will feature concrete slabs embedded with ...

If we want it, the road could literally be paved to a renewable energy future. A pilot test of the technology turned out a great success. One year after a bike path outside Amsterdam was plastered ...