"The confusion around legal e-bikes and e-motos is in part because the latter are sometimes marketed as legitimate e-bikes. Yet, while many e-motos look like e-bikes, they are able to hit speeds that have begun to make them a scourge in public areas around Minnesota. Some cities have gone so far as to ban throttled e-motos from their trails."
State looking to regulate electric motor bikes, increasingly seen as a safety issue
By Bob Timmons and Alex Chhith
The Minnesota Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/electric-motor-bikes-are-viewed-as-an-emerging-safety-issue-new-state-legislation-aims-to-rein-them-in/601596793?utm_source=gift
