Volvo’s electric car spin-off, Polestar, has become the latest car manufacturer to announce plans to enter the e-bike market. The move builds on a collaboration with upmarket bike brand Allebike that resulted in a limited edition mountain bike earlier in the year.

Polestar has previously flirted with light electric vehicles by offering an ‘electric mobility bundle’ for its Polestar 2. This essentially comprised a means of docking and charging Cake’s Makka e-moped on the back of the car.

It’s a slightly odd concept that was presented as a means of dealing with the car bans that are being implemented in a number of major city centres.

July’s Allebike collaboration was an unassisted bike, but Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath told The Verge that the two firms are now working on an electric two-wheeler.

“I always hated that marketing stunt of buying a bike and then just putting your brand on it,” he said, suggesting that the firm is pretty serious about the project.

That would distinguish the resultant product from the Hummer e-bike and arguably also the Porsche e-bikes developed with Rotwild.

Porsche has since proven its genuine commitment to e-bikes however. In June, the firm took over German e-bike drive system manufacturer, Fazua, and there are now plans to develop and produce e-bike motors, batteries and software under the Porsche brand name. A new generation of Porsche e-bikes is reportedly slated for “the middle of this decade.”

The timeline for Polestar’s e-bikes is, for the minute, similarly vague, but Ingenlath does appear to be serious.

“I’m absolutely for the plurality of mobility,” he said. “I hate as much that people would say, ‘Oh, we don’t need cars.’ I mean, of course we need cars. I love to own a car. But I would love to not use it every day. I’d like to use it when I’d like to use it.”

He concluded: “The bike, the bus, whatever means of transport. Mix it up.”