San Diego County has a new target for a consumer protection lawsuit: deceptive advertising of e-bikes.
The Board of Supervisors has ordered county attorneys to start litigation against companies that sell and market products they call e-bikes but which are actually more akin to high-powered electric motorcycles.
Such bikes, which look like and are marketed as regular e-bikes, can easily have their settings reprogramed with a companion app to reach speeds up to 60 mph. That’s well beyond the 28 mph limit California law sets for classifying a product as an e-bike…