If you’ve ever tried to juggle groceries , a backpack , and a half-eaten granola bar while pedaling uphill in traffic, welcome, you are my people. I live in the city, I’m a mom, and my transportation needs range wildly from “slip through gridlock to make a 9 a.m. meeting” to “carry a soccer bag the size of a Labrador while bribing my kid with fruit snacks.” So I spent the past few weeks actually using commuter e-bikes the way real people do: through rain, time crunches, impossible parking situations, and the pure humiliation of trying to wedge a bike into an elevator while pretending it’s totally normal.

The list ahead includes the whole range: big upright cargo-style bikes that can replace a car (but not this one ), slim stealthy ones that weave through traffic like a rumor, an

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