E-bikes

I thought some of you might be interested in this. There is a guy up here in Minot who has started a new company that sells electric bicycles. You've probably heard of these. When you search on line for ebikes, there is all kinds of cool stuff, even a "pterosail", or a recumbant, street legal bike with a sail! The problem is a lot of this cost saving stuff is actually pretty expensive, some costing as much as cars. His prices are comparibly less ($700-$900 versus $1500-$6000!)
This guy says he's looking for distributors or "dealers". He's set up shop in Minot and has dealers in a few other states. He seems very keen on getting into Utah and Arizona (although I think he has one dealer in Arizona so far). So I'm including some links so you check this company out. If anything it's pretty innovative( Kristin and I actually rode some of his bikes and they were really fun, a combination of a good quality bike with moped except all electric. He has one that folds up which is really neat).
He told me (the owner) when he went to China to check out the electric bike market there, that over 20 million ebikes are sold in that country every year. In the U.S., the number is about 100,000. But consider, that number is up 6000%! Could this be the next CNG or Alternitive transportation craze? Check out some of these links and let me know what you think.

www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/515759.html?nav=5002
http://www.electraped.com/