It’s also £2900 - and as usual, buried the lede.
It’s also £2900 - and as usual, buried the lede.
And what does the generator run on? More hydrogen!
Starts at $6800. Likely not.
We’re pretty flat here in the Netherlands - 250w is fine, but thanks for the suggestion. I’m not racing and our ride through the heathers and up a few dunes aren’t tough even without an electric wheel, but it’s more to make much-needed exercise less onerous.
It’s Electrek. If they ever wanted to verify claims, they’d be out of the Tesla business years ago.
We’re sorely tempted to convert our 2 old Specialized mountain bikes with the 100G Geeko rear wheels. Hear good things about them, and we can’t do more than 250W motors as we live in Europe. Still - €700 to make the €2000 bike electric and not noticeably so is tempting. Ebikes have meant no one looks to steal my stumpjumper e4 any more… yay(…?)
Electrek can’t take a shit without mentioning “Tesla” in the headline…
Maybe add “fringe” to the search
No, it’s my fault. I was supposed to be responding to another comment about pollution. Sorry for the confusion.
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back covering some of your concerns. You can find it here.
Specifically, even with coal as a source, EVs are cleaner anywhere from a few months to under 2 years. Some cars are built carbon neutral like my ID.3, the ID.4 and I believe Kias
Not just dares you, but double-dog dares you!
Or… it may not.
Don’t you love clickbait? Let’s see what comes out first, but from the look of it it’s for the 1% only.
Nio is coming out with a 1000km semi-solid battery this month so it’s not as far away as many think.
They also just opened a showroom here in Amsterdam this week, with that ET7 in the window. I’ll wander in today and see what’s up.
The Netherlands here - even with protected car lanes, e-scooters are forbidden on the roads. Previous experiences from other cities like París seem to reinforce the government’s position.
Edit: Maybe the argument would be better served by separating these two issues: With the increase in bike transit, especially as a partial remedy for ecological purposes, they deserve to have their own lanes (and legal priority in transit - something we have here) at the expense of more-polluting vehicles. Separately, e-scooters can travel in those separate lanes, but they require helmets at least (though this opens the door to having ebike users wear helmets, which isn’t a bad idea).
There are a lot more links, but this is a good one. It appears many issues are possible: higher speeds, heavier bikes (maybe harder to turn), but then both require a faster mental acuity to manage them. Plus, we use a LOT of traffic circles, and very often bikes can be in blind spots - I read that circles and intersections are where most accidents occur. Older people also assume you’ll let them through, but then again - blind spots.
I’m not saying the Netherlands shouldn’t be used as an example of good infrastructure, but also there are challenges we haven’t resolved either. Let’s not ignore them.
Can’t seem to post links.
Search for “netherlands older ebike deaths injuries” in google/ddg.
Young, usually under middle-school age.
Older, usually 55+. People here bike into old age.
That’s changing. Electric bikes are involved in many more accidents now, and it’s advised to wear a helmet if you’re young or older (I’ve lived here 25 years now and you can see the changes).
They also misrepresented what I wrote, so yeah - I had an attitude about my response but of course you’ll ignore that to attack from another side.
Block now on. Adios.
Only if you wear cleats while biking.
Maybe.