This new three-passenger electric trike replaces a car for hauling kids around town
Bicycle maker Sixthreezero has just unveiled its newest e-bike, which takes the form of a rickshaw-style electric trike that comes with a mouthful of a name: the “EVRY journey Tricycle 750W with Passenger Seat.” The overloaded name underscores the heavy-hauling ability of the new e-trike, which is designed with a rear bench to carry two passengers in addition to the main rider.
The Sixthreezero three-passenger trike could be the most realistic car-replacement e-bike yet, at least for parents that count twice-daily carpool duty as a main use of their SUV or other unnecessarily large car.
In Europe, dropping kids off at school or taking them to after-school activities is often performed by electric bike. In the US though, it’s more common to bring 5,000-pound (2,200 kg) machines into the mix.
But not only do electric bikes and e-trikes cost significantly less than a typical car, but they are much easier to operate in a city. They save both time and money (the former by avoiding traffic jams and the latter by removing the cost of fuel, parking, insurance, and other car-related costs).
The Sixthreezero three-passenger electric trike is set to offer that same type of family e-bike transport to us Americans, and perhaps along the way it could help turn two car families into one car and one e-bike families.
The e-trike features a powerful 750W front hub motor in a 24″ fat tire. By maxing out the legal limit for motor power available in the US, the bike should be plenty capable of hauling around three passengers.
A front suspension fork and a suspension seat post combine to offer a more comfortable ride for the operator. There’s no suspension in the back, but hey, kids are young and they bounce back quickly.
What the kids DO get is a pretty awesome-looking rickshaw-style bench. It’s mounted above 20″ fat tires that should offer a bit of psuedo-suspension for the rear passengers, and they even get their own diamond plate flooring to rest their little feet on.
There’s no real cargo basket under the bench, which seems like a bit of an oversight to me. But you could easily add some bungee netting to turn that area into grocery storage or a place to hang onto soccer bags and balls. Just make sure to keep any long and pointy things out of the spokes.
The electric rickshaw features a 7-speed shifter to make it easier to pedal at low speeds or up hills, though the handlebar-mounted throttle should help get the trike moving just as easily. Three-wheel disc brakes should shed that speed quickly, though I would have expected hydraulic disc brakes for the bike’s $3,999 MSRP.
There’s no word yet on the bike’s other tech specs such as top speed, battery capacity, or range. We’ve reached out to the company but haven’t heard back yet.
Currently available on pre-order with a promotional price of $3,499, the three-passenger electric trike is set for April 2023 deliveries. That should be just in time for nice cycling weather in much of the country.
Electric tricycles are quickly becoming a growing niche within the US e-bike market. Rad Power Bikes had one of the biggest e-trike launches to date with its RadTrike unveiling earlier this month.
Other e-trikes from a growing number of suppliers are increasing the available options in the US.
Electrek’s Take
Yes! Now THIS I can get behind.
I love electric trikes, and this is exactly the kind of heavy-hitting utility that they should be designed and marketed for.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool to see nice trike options for seniors. That’s largely what the RadTrike is, an e-bike for older folks that benefit from the stability of three wheels and the lack of balancing requirement at stops.
But I think that the biggest benefit of e-trikes isn’t just getting older riders back on e-bikes for recreation. The true biggest benefit is utility. Whether hauling cargo or kiddos (which is simply more valuable cargo), e-trikes have HUGE potential to replace cars. You suburban mom and dads probably aren’t going to be doing 10-mile (16 km) kid drop-offs on 45 mph (70 km/h) roads on an electric rickshaw like this. But all of you city parents surely can use an e-trike to do kid-shuttling duty in urban areas. It’s nicer than using a car, more fun, cheaper, and greener. It’s the perfect solution!
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Tesla has partnered with Steak ‘n Shake to deploy Superchargers at up to more than 100 restaurant locations.
The partnership between Tesla and the American fast food chain has been revealed through a strange series of posts on X.
First, Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on Steak ‘n Shake’s announcement that it is switching from using seed oils to beef tallow.
The restaurant responded by proposing “Tesla charging stations at Steak n Shake”, but they apparently didn’t know that it was already happening as Tesla responded that they had already signed on 6 sites and they have over 20 more in review:
The Steak n Shake account responded by suggesting that the partnership extend to over 100 locations:
Thank you Tesla Charging! Let’s do over 100 locations. Consider all sites approved!
The chain operates over 400 locations around the world – many of them in the midwest. A lot of these locations are located near highways, where Tesla prefers to deploy charging stations.
It’s not the first time that Tesla has partnered with a restaurant for multiple Supercharger locations. It also has a deal with Ruby Tuesday.
Tesla is currently deploying its latest V4 Superchargers capable of 500 kW – with the first stations expected to come online in the US later this year.
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Volkswagen’s electric SUV is making a comeback. Last month, the Volkswagen ID.4 topped Tesla’s Model Y to become the best-selling EV in Europe, and it was even in the top three in the US.
Volkswagen ID.4 was EU’s best-selling EV, top 3 in the US
Although new vehicle registrations fell 2% in Europe last month, electric vehicles were a bright spot, with BEV sales up 37% from the year prior.
According to JATO Dynamics, 165,473 EVs were registered in Europe in January. The Volkswagen ID.4 took the top spot after registrations surged 195% to 7,177, overtaking the Tesla Model Y.
Tesla Model Y registrations plunged 46% in Europe last month to 6,155. The Model 3 refresh, which was launched in late 2023, had a 44% decline in registrations. Overall, Tesla registered only 9,913 vehicles in January 2025, a 45% decline from last year.
While the arrival of the new Model Y plays a role, backlash against Elon Musk’s increasingly outspoken political antics is also causing widespread hate among owners in the US and Europe.
Felipe Munoz, Global Analyst at JATO said the solid performance of EVs is “particularly impressive given the significant dip in sales that Tesla experienced” in January.
He explained, “it’s not unusual for sales to drop just before a new generation or an updated model is introduced to the market.”
Although sales are expected to pick up again, Munoz added, “The performance of both the Model 3 and Model Y is an indication of the declining popularity of Tesla in Europe overall.”
Volkswagen is taking advantage with the ID.4 taking the top spot, and the ID.7 placing third with 5,879 registrations, up 657% from January 2024.
Kia’s mass-market EV3h launched in late 2024, took fourth with 5,792, while the Skoda Enyaq rounded out the top five.
Chinese automakers, like BYD and MG, are starting to gain some real traction in Europe. With 37,134 vehicles registered last month, up 52% from January 2024, Chinese brands accounted for 3.7% of the market. That’s up from the 2.4% market share in January 2024.
Although still a relatively small number, combined, it would put them ahead of Ford, which registered 35,790 vehicles in Europe last month.
Electrek’s Take
The ID.4 appears to be making a comeback. After it went back on sale early last month, Volkswagen’s ID.4 was already the third best-selling EV in the US in January behind Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3.
Despite its success in Europe and the US, Volkswagen, like most global OEMs, is struggling in China. VW’s Chinese joint venture with SAIC cut the price of the ID.4 X, its version of the electric SUV sold in China, to under $20,000 (139,900 yuan) this week.
With leases starting as low as $189 per month in the US, it’s no wonder the ID.4 is already a top seller. If you’re ready to check it out for yourself, you can use our link to find deals on the Volkswagen ID.4 in your area.
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Elon Musk has reportedly ‘canceled’ a Tesla engineer for complaining about the CEO’s behaviors on social media.
As we recently reported, Tesla insiders are finally starting to speak out against Elon Musk over his increasingly unhinged social media presence.
For example, just today, he called CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen’s family a “crime family” because someone wrongly claimed that his daughter received millions of dollars from USAID when it was just someone with the same last name.
However, it looks like Musk and Tesla are actively suppressing employees speaking out.
The New York Times reports that Tesla has fired Jared Ottmann, a manager of battery thermal supplier industrialization engineering, over his complaints about Musk.
Ottmann, who has been at Tesla for 6 years, says that he has been raising concerns internally about Musk’s use of social media for the last 3 years, but he ramped up his effort last month after Musk’s salute at the Trump inauguration.
The engineer specifically took offense to a tweet that Musk posted in the aftermath of the inauguration. Instead of apologizing and saying that he didn’t mean to make a Nazi salute, Musk decided to attack the media for even suggesting that the gesture was a Sieg Heiland tweeted this:
Ottmann commented on the post:
This post by Tesla’s current CEO name drops genocidal assholes as a joke and has 308,000 likes.
The engineer says that he raised the issue with Tesla and while he gets “personally support”, he says the company remains silent about Musk’s behavior:
Starting in 2022 and especially the last week I’ve raised the issue internally multiple times, with managers, HR, legal compliance, investor relations. And while overwhelmingly people offer personal support, Tesla as a company has remained silent.
Ottmann, who has been promoted 4 times in 6 years at Tesla, has now been let go.
Electrek’s Take
For a guy who calls himself a “free speech absolutist” and “anti-cancel culture”, he canceled this engineer pretty quickly when he didn’t like how he was exercising his free speech.
This is obviously an attempt at scaring other Tesla employees from speaking out at Tesla.
It’s one of my main concerns about the automaker: it’s not a meritocracy that attracts top engineering talent anymore. One of the main criteria to work at Tesla now is to support its CEO, who is off the deep end.
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