{"id":322994,"date":"2025-05-21T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-best-looking-enclosed-electric-bike-car-yet-isnt-going-to-make-it\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:02:25","slug":"the-best-looking-enclosed-electric-bike-car-yet-isnt-going-to-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-best-looking-enclosed-electric-bike-car-yet-isnt-going-to-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The best looking enclosed electric bike-car yet isn\u2019t going to make it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/05\/the-best-looking-enclosed-electric-bike-car-yet-isnt-going-to-make-it.jpg\" \/>In a surprising and disappointing turn for fans of innovative micromobility, Podbike, the Norwegian maker of the sleek, fully enclosed Frikar electric pedal-car, has filed for bankruptcy. Despite gaining significant attention and accolades for its standout design and functionality, the company ultimately couldn\u2019t overcome the financial hurdles that have cut down so many ambitious mobility startups lately. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/05\/21\/the-best-looking-enclosed-electric-bike-car-yet-isnt-going-to-make-it\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-best-looking-enclosed-electric-bike-car-yet-isnt-going-to-make-it\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":322995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}