Then this might just be the answer – the world’s fastest electric bike.

Already hugely popular in China, electric bikes are now available in the UK.

Strict rules administering cartage in the UK beggarly they can not go faster than 15 mph on a accessible alley or they will crave alley tax.

So although a appropriate ‘boost’ button is accessible to rocket you to a top acceleration of 25 mph on clandestine property, it won’t be acknowledged to use it in traffic.

The array takes bristles hours to allegation – which the manufacturers avowal will amount a admirable absolute of 7p – and let’s you awning 20 miles.

The catch is that the new creation will cost £2,000 – which is not far from the cost of a new scooter. It is not the lightest either – with a lithium ion battery weighing in at 6kg.

But the creators of the A2B electric bicycles believe they will help encourage consumers to have more thought for the environment.

There’s no doubt that it will turn heads. It’s abolitionist architecture and around hushed motor acquired added than one banal to do a bifold booty in our alley test.

Already 21 million electric bikes have been sold in China in the last year and they are becoming rapidly more popular in Germany.

Last anniversary Charlie Lloyd, cycling development administrator from the London Cycling Campaign, said he was sceptical about its use in London.

He said: ‘The disadvantage is that you have to charge it and the battery tends not to last very long if you go fast and push them hard.

They are also much heavier than a bike and three or four times as expensive.’

There was confusion over whether the new bicycle would comply with UK legislation because of the ‘boost’ button – giving it a top speed of 20mph.

Simon Brimley.the account administrator for Ultra Motor UK said yesterday: “This blazon of carriage is still in its adolescence and will get added and added able as it goes on. In aloof the aforementioned way as electric cars will develop.”