The California Bicycle Coalition — under its educational arm, the California Mobility Fund — convened the California Independent Electric Mobility Council in 2025, bringing together representatives from government agencies, public health, research, local advocacy and safety organizations, and the electric mobility industry. Click on the image to download.https://www.calbike.org/ciemc/The report describes a complicated and rapidly changing market but says the Council found little disagreement about the fundamental value of legal e-bikes. The larger problem is the growing number of faster and more powerful electric devices that fall outside those classes while being sold or marketed as e-bikes. The resulting policy can end up restricting legal e-bikes instead of addressing the faster, unregulated devices that often prompt the concern. “SB 1167 protects access to safe, legal e-bikes while creating a clear and lawful path for faster devices that belong in a different regulatory category.