There is not a path to reduced #ClimateChange emissions and a sustainable #transportation system that allows our species to survive #GlobalWarming while maintaining #CarSupremacy with its glut of empty passing lanes and free #parking where all options to choose #eBikes or #transit have been cut off by walls of traffic (cars always either at a standstill or moving at deadly speeds, averaging 20mph.) Many people need to change their plans and stop driving, many car lanes need to be repurposed.
What is with this plate on the REI #eBikes for the motor controller compartment cover? The edges aren't sealed at all and the tapped steel flat bar floats in there with the controller hooked to both ends, like this is just to clamp it in place. The center screw doesn't thread into anything except the plate and then it touches down on the controller, plus had this red grease only on it. I'm concerned that water is going to get in, since there are no gaskets and it faces up. #BikeTooter
Verkehrsministerium: Fahrradblinker sollen für alle erlaubt sein
Egal, ob mit Motor oder ohne: Das Verkehrsministerium will künftig flächendeckend Blinker an Fahrrädern zulassen. Bislang geht das nur für spezielle Modelle. Eine Pflicht soll es aber nicht geben.
UPDATE with more details on #Boston's new #ebikes: they're available to ride now, and you'll find them at several stations around downtown this afternoon.
The NJ legislature just passed a bill requiring low-speed electric bicycles to be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and to be insured.
Somewhere, either a fossil fuel lobbyist or an insurance industry lobbyist got his wings.
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I spent the last weeks researching #hydrogen bicycles; this is what I found:
The sector is still niche, but it's already beyond demonstration prototypes.
-Hydrogen #fuelcell#ebikes are available for purchase by the general public;
-Hydrogen bikes started with shared bike operators and are now venturing to cargo and private users.
-France's Pragma Mobility is currently the leader, followed by China's Youon Technology.
"280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world." #ebikes#BikeTooter
City dwellers across Europe are ditching their cars – and traffic jams, hefty bills and the weight of climate guilt – for cargo bikes. Writing for The Next Web, Siôn Geschwindt explains why he became one of them. https://flip.it/LdM3gU #Tech#EBikes#Technology#Culture
We keep willfully ignoring the actual solution for urban and suburban transport.
We still let the car industry lead with the preservation of their profits instead of looking at what's actually working.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars