{"id":343965,"date":"2026-01-19T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/california-is-trying-to-close-the-last-major-electric-bike-loophole\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:05:48","slug":"california-is-trying-to-close-the-last-major-electric-bike-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/california-is-trying-to-close-the-last-major-electric-bike-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"California is trying to close the last major electric bike loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/california-is-trying-to-close-the-last-major-electric-bike-loophole.jpg\" \/>California lawmakers are once again taking aim at the gray areas of electric bike regulation, this time by targeting what has quietly become one of the biggest loopholes in the state\u2019s e-bike laws. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/01\/19\/california-is-trying-to-close-the-last-major-electric-bike-loophole\/ 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\/california-is-trying-to-close-the-last-major-electric-bike-loophole\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":343966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343965","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\/343965","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=343965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}