"At this fair, instead of pony rides, games of chance and fried food, visitors took electric bicycles and scooters for a spin, watched cooking #demonstrations on #InductionStoves, and learned about other ways to make their homes and lives more climate-friendly."
My town has one every year: it's a party. People bring their EVs (two and four wheeled) for show and tell. Vendors have a showcase. There's food and music, and lots of people.
"Electric vehicles as a whole displaced about 1.5m barrels of oil a day globally in 2022, according to Bloomberg. Two-thirds of that – almost 1m barrels a day – was just from electric bikes and mopeds, which are known as electric micromobility."
Die Zahl der Diebstähle von E-Bikes und Pedelecs in Niedersachsen hat sich in den vergangenen drei Jahren verdoppelt. Mehr als 30.000 Fahrräder wurden laut Kriminalstatistik im Jahr 2023 gestohlen - darunter auch Tausende E-Bikes und Pedelecs.
Electric bikes from Decathlon have been catching our eye for some time now. One key model - the R500e Longtail - needed a closer look. Now the review is done our tester would like to hang on to it, which is about as good an endorsement as they come: https://www.cyclingelectric.com/reviews/decathlon-r500e-cargo-bike-review
Pro Jahr gibt es an deutschen Bahnhöfen etwa 2.700 Fundräder. Die Deutsche Bahn bewahrt diese mindestens zehn Wochen lang auf - dann werden sie versteigert. Dabei kommen sogar E-Bikes unter den Hammer.
Body of research grows that indicates the e-bike is a silver bullet for the transport ecosystem in reducing traffic & helping people become more active. Of course, mobile people stay & shop on high streets too, so not bad for the economy either: https://www.cyclingelectric.com/news/study-e-bike-riders-drive-less-trips
Vielen Dank. Leider sind historische Bestandszahlen nicht frei zugänglich.
Allerdings scheinen sie bei Ihnen im Hause auch vorzuliegen:
"Wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt, standen zum Jahresanfang 2021 in den privaten Haushalten in Deutschland rund 1,2 Millionen und damit 20 % mehr Elektrofahrräder als im Vorjahr."
"Weitere Ergebnisse aus den Laufenden Wirtschaftsrechnungen (LWR) ... verfügbar."
New to #Portland Ride: East Neighborhoods, on April 30 at 5:30pm, group ride led by city staff to explore ways to get around by bicycle in East Portland neighborhoods! 7.5 mile loop, mellow pace, Lincoln Park (SE 135th & Mill)
I still think the most under-reported, most holy shit tech story of the last 5+ years is how good e-bikes have gotten and how much more affordable a decent e-bike has become.
E-cars and trucks are a nice change but mostly meh. E-bikes, tho? They are magic.
They deserve subsidies and way more press attention.
Just started a spreadsheet to keep track of energy usage over time for my 2 ebikes. There's only the most recent "trips" (which I reset every time I charge the battery) so far - so, one entry for each bike.
The human efficiency numbers are very close, which is so Interesting! Average speed for these bikes are pretty close (but not recorded), so that's telling me that I'm putting roughly in the same effort, but supplementing with the motor to hit my desired speed.
searching for e-bike recommendations for my disabled ass, that won't break the bank and have an amount of cargo capacity even if it's like a few bags of groceries (more is better, i'm a disaster)? I need to nearly-never pedal and especially not up any hills or anything
@fuck_cars Something I wish Australia would change is laws prohibiting any vehicles between a 200W ebike and a full motorcycle. I'd get a lot of value from a 60kmph limited 1kW ebike. But currently to sell such a thing it would have to comply with all motorcycle requirements, and things like ABS on both wheels is really not required for such a device.a #AusPol#eBikes
"Finally, we find that even when #eBikes incentive programs are designed cost-effectively, the costs per ton of #CO2 reduced still far exceed those of alternatives or reasonable social costs of GHG emissions. We conclude that the argument for allocating public funds for e-bike incentive programs must be based on the co-benefits of e-bike travel and ownership, and not solely on GHG reduction" (like the 40k/yr people killed with cars, injuries, asthma & sedentary diseases)
“Bicycle deaths in New York City hit a 23-year high in 2023, according to new data from the NYC Department of Transportation. Of the 30 cyclists who died last year, 23 were riding electric bikes. “
So I looked up the article, and that is all it says; that’s the entire thing. Nothing about how they died, just that they died.
It seems that the #NYTimes is having a War on Bikes, especially #eBikes, and I wonder why.