As temperatures start rising many bicycle enthusiasts wake up from hibernation. While they were giving their bikes a break others continued refining the future of the electric bicycle: the completely chainless Free Drive system from Schaeffler.

With a battery-operated high-speed motorcycle, a student racing team at Schaeffler’s partnering university Ohio State underpinned the potential of electric powertrains. Yet the road toward four world speed records was bumpier than expected …

Hauling people and goods in rural areas is often tricky. In many places, bus and train connections are lacking. Connecting remote regions that have been left behind poses a worldwide and multifaceted challenge.

Bicycles not only take people from A to B. Historically, they’ve reduced the dependency of women like hardly any other technical revolution. On World Bicycle Day on June 3, tomorrow looks back at how bicycle technology has improved the world.

A classic is turning into the spearhead of urban mobility transformation: the bicycle.

Västerås, a city with a population of 120,000, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Stockholm, is going to receive a pioneering ­mobility center.

Neither chain, nor shaft, nor belt - Schaeffler presented the "Bike-by-Wire" system Free Drive as an innovative solution for bicycles at Eurobike 2021 in Friedrichshafen.

Scientists are working at full stretch on the development of robots for everyday life and technical systems to keep an aging society agile for as long as possible.

Acting with consistency, thinking with agility, responding with flexibility. These globetrotters have mastered the art of planning as perfectly as the art of adaptation.

Everything is subject to change – including mobility. Ships, airplanes or automobiles are sent to the scrapyard when progress has made them obsolete. “tomorrow” shows examples of successful transforma

In countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia more than 80 percent of all households use two-wheeled vehicles to satisfy their mobility needs – reason enough to take a closer look.