Re “Ev Sales supercharged”, Saturday, 12 March 2022 In the face of the climate crisis, it’s both encouraging and discouraging that it took high gas prices to get people to finally consider electric vehicles. But, let’s really make this a transportation revolution by shifting to electric-assist bicycles instead. An EV is still a monstrous, high speed weapon that takes up a large amount of public space everywhere it goes. Although they don’t poison us with their tailpipe fumes, EVs pose a greater the threat to human-powered road users because their greater weight is more deadly at the same speeds as gas vehicles. As a mode of transportation, even a cargo e-bike costs less than a new car, and that’s before factoring in lower maintenance costs, lower or no insurance costs and zero gas costs. It has almost no emissions beyond its manufacture, and brings the user into communion with the landscapes they ride through (for better or worse!) E-bikes have changed the ...
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