{"id":360615,"date":"2026-08-29T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/illinois-just-made-40-mph-e-bikes-street-legal-but-theres-a-huge-catch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:05:17","slug":"illinois-just-made-40-mph-e-bikes-street-legal-but-theres-a-huge-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/illinois-just-made-40-mph-e-bikes-street-legal-but-theres-a-huge-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois just made 40 mph e-bikes street legal \u2013 but there\u2019s a huge catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/08\/illinois-just-made-40-mph-e-bikes-street-legal-but-theres-a-huge-catch.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Illinois just signed a sweeping new electric bicycle law that, among many other changes, finally answers a question that has been hanging over the rapidly growing market for high-powered electric bikes: What exactly are we supposed to do with all of these 35 and 40 mph \u201ce-bikes\u201d that don\u2019t fit into the normal three-class electric bicycle system. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/08\/29\/illinois-just-made-40-mph-e-bikes-street-legal-but-theres-a-huge-catch\/ 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\/illinois-just-made-40-mph-e-bikes-street-legal-but-theres-a-huge-catch\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":360616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360615","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\/360615","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=360615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}