{"id":350385,"date":"2026-03-24T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/why-one-tiny-detail-is-breaking-us-e-bike-laws-and-its-not-speed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:00:03","slug":"why-one-tiny-detail-is-breaking-us-e-bike-laws-and-its-not-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/why-one-tiny-detail-is-breaking-us-e-bike-laws-and-its-not-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why one tiny detail is breaking US e-bike laws (and it\u2019s not speed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/why-one-tiny-detail-is-breaking-us-e-bike-laws-and-its-not-speed.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Spend enough time in the e-bike world, and you\u2019ll start to notice something strange: a huge amount of how we regulate micromobility comes down to one simple question \u2013 does it have pedals? That might have made sense a decade ago, but today it\u2019s starting to look increasingly outdated. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/03\/24\/why-one-tiny-detail-is-breaking-us-e-bike-laws-and-its-not-speed\/ 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\/why-one-tiny-detail-is-breaking-us-e-bike-laws-and-its-not-speed\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":350386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350385","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\/350385","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=350385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}