Copenhagen Wheel co-inventor Assaf Biderman outside the Here & Now studios. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now) Install the wheel, download the Copenhagen Wheel app, and you're ready to go. (Jesse Costa/Here & ...

Could electric bicycles replace the traditional bike? In 2009, MIT Researchers developed the Copenhagen Wheel, which exchanges the back tire with a power-enabled device, transforming the bike into an ...

Superpedestrian, a Cambridge-based start-up, started making the Copenhagen Wheel available for preorders on Tuesday. According to the company, shipping begins spring 2014. For those following the ...

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's SENSEable City team have chosen the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change to show off a new bicycle wheel prototype which not only provides ...

The heyday for electric vehicles was way back in the early '30s -- the 1830s that is. By 1867, a workable two-wheeled electric cycle was on display at the Paris World Exposition courtesy of Austrian ...

In an increasingly robust e-bike market, the Copenhagen Wheel brings something new to the table beyond the typical beefy bike with a motor — and it comes with a pretty good story, too. Speaking in ...

A new design wants to give your bike the abilities of a hybrid car, a frequent-flyer program, a gym and a networked navigation device, all by simply swapping out the back wheel. The Copenhagen Wheel ...

It was back in 2009 that we first heard about the Copenhagen Wheel, a motor-equipped rear bicycle wheel that could turn an existing bicycle into an e-bike. The years since saw some delays, but as of ...

On December 15, 2009 MIT attended the United Nations Climate Conference and unveiled perhaps one of the most hyped pieces of tech to hit bicycles in ages: the Copenhagen Wheel. Now, nearly a decade ...

The Copenhagen Wheel turns a regular bike into a hybrid bicycle. (Photo courtesy of SENSEable City Lab) Most of the cyclists I know seem to look down on electric bikes. Yes, they realize there's a ...

Imagine cruising through the city on a bike at 20 mph without exerting much effort? That's what a hybrid bike can do. Any ordinary bike can be turned into a hybrid through the Copenhagen Wheel—a ...