About
Ride Drive Electric covers electric transport in every form it takes — not just the cars.
Electric cars get the coverage. They are not the whole story, and they were never the most interesting part of it.
The same shift — a battery, a motor, and a rethink of what a machine needs to be — has been working its way through bicycles, scooters, skateboards, four-wheelers, jet skis, lawn mowers, light aircraft and the trolley you drag through an airport. Some of it is serious engineering. Some of it is a rideable suitcase. All of it is the same idea arriving in different places, and that breadth is what this site is about.
What you'll find here
56 guides across 7 categories. They are explainers and buying guides rather than news: what a thing is, how it works, what separates a good one from a bad one, and what to know before you spend money.
- Cars — Road cars, from the first mass-market EVs to the ones that reset expectations.
- Bikes — Electric bicycles, scooters and the one-wheeled machines that defy category.
- Recreation — Boards, hoverboards, jet skis, ATVs — electric transport built for fun.
- Trucks — Pickups, semis and utility vehicles making the switch to electric drive.
- Kids — Ride-ons, junior bikes and scooters, with the safety notes parents ask for.
- Air Travel — Electric aircraft, solar planes and the machines that move you through an airport.
- Batteries — The chemistry underneath all of it, and what comes after lithium-ion.
How to read the dates
Most of this library was written in 2018 and 2019, and it says so. Every guide carries the month it was written in the strip beneath its headline, taken from the evidence in the site's own archive rather than from a publish date that had been overwritten.
That matters for the buying guides in particular. Ten of them began life as dated “best of” lists. The model-by-model picks in those have been removed — they named products that are largely discontinued — and the part that still holds, how to judge one of these machines for yourself, has been kept. Where that has happened, the guide says so at the top.
What this site doesn't do
- No sponsored placements. Nobody pays to appear here.
- No affiliate blocks. There were some, years ago, from a plugin that stopped working and left broken shortcodes on the page. They have been removed rather than rebuilt.
- No invented specifications. Where a figure appears, it came from the manufacturer or a named source, and links go out to it.
Get in touch
Corrections are welcome, and so is a note about something that should be covered and isn't. The contact page takes about a minute.