--- title: Bimotal Elevate: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 description: Find out why Bimotal Elevate is one of the best inventions of 2024 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094576/bimotal-elevate/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-30T12:01:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:55:10.810Z article:section: Business og:title: Bimotal Elevate: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:description: Find out why Bimotal Elevate made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094576/bimotal-elevate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd208fce568758bd1/698a89fd011682a4cb98ad75/bimotal-elevate-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bimotal Elevate: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bimotal Elevate: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 twitter:description: Find out why Bimotal Elevate made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd208fce568758bd1/698a89fd011682a4cb98ad75/bimotal-elevate-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Motorizing Bicycles by [Chris Stokel-Walker](/author/chris-stokel-walker/) ## Chris Stokel-Walker  Bimotal Elevate turns a pedal bike into an e-bike with just a cellphone-sized device. Toby Ricco developed the product so he could keep mountain biking after he recovered from tearing cartilage in his left knee. Elevate is a $1,995 palm-sized motor with 750 watts of power—enough to produce 75 Newton-meters of torque—that clips onto the wheel of a regular bike. While still in its infancy—around 100 of Elevate’s 400 pre-ordered units have shipped since March—Ricco has big plans for the product. “Our beachhead market is electrifying bikes,” he says, but search and rescue teams are also using it to motorize gurneys to tackle tough terrain. **Buy Now:** Elevate Ebike Motor System at [Bimotal](https://fave.co/3UnEUxv "undefined") These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094576/bimotal-elevate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094576/bimotal-elevate/"},"headline":"Bimotal Elevate: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T12:01:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:55:10.810Z","description":"Find out why Bimotal Elevate is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094576/bimotal-elevate/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd208fce568758bd1/698a89fd011682a4cb98ad75/bimotal-elevate-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Stokel-Walker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/"}],"creator":"Chris Stokel-Walker","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd208fce568758bd1/698a89fd011682a4cb98ad75/bimotal-elevate-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094576/bimotal-elevate/","name":"Bimotal Elevate: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```