Electric vehicles are making an increasingly bigger dent in oil use, both globally and in Australia. In 2022, they displaced the use of 1.5m barrels of oil a day. Daily global oil demand is around 97m barrels, so there's a long way to go.
But it is not electric cars doing most of the work. It is e-bikes and mopeds. These #micromobility devices are ten times as common as electric cars globally (led by widespread adoption in #China), and twice as popular as e-cars in Australia. In 2022, electric micromobility devices globally displaced more than four times as much oil as electric cars.
If you've never tried one, consider giving it a go. Most bike shops will give you a free test ride. Personally, getting an #ebike has been one of the best decisions I've made in the last few years and has been one important way of maintaining our household record of never having owned a car.
Finally did some tinkercad-ing to fix the computer/controller on my wife's ebike. We'll be all ready for warm temps and dry roads when they arrive.
That was some seriously weak plastic for holding this on the bike, especially with the two wire bundles that bolt onto the top and torque it all of the time.
It will be great to be able to check and make sure the e-bike you're about to purchase is legal and certified in your country. Of course, a question looms. "Do potential buyers care?"
I'm somcak, a #librarian currently in #Ohio. I have 2 mini #dachshunds and 2 #cats. I enjoy all sorts of music, yes, even death metal on occasion!
I've been on Mastodon since October 2022, and this is my 5th server.
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Got an Abus Granit Extreme 2500 U-lock today. Can confirm the mechanism quality is outstanding. This is a new generation of u-lock that is reinforced against battery-fed grinder attacks. They still can be defeated, but the time to cut is extended to multiple cuts over minutes instead of seconds.
bike check / mountain check for the yuba #supercargo with the little #hillTopper#eBikes kit. Rode from Barbur up Terwilliger to downtown, around with the @bikeloudpdx#pdxBikes#eBike policy ride, and back out Barbur from 1st. The battery indicator was red (of blue, green, red) when I got home but it never faded on the long steady climb out Barbur, 10 minutes for 2.5 miles with 200+ft elevation (ODOT, get your cars off of our essential historically-streetcar-graded bikeways)
Despite just 50 views on my last video, my zeal for spreading the gospel of Emacs, free software, and Linux burns brighter than ever! 💻🐧 Thrilled to share my next big idea with you soon - stay tuned for more tech enlightenment! 🔥
Our household finally has a working electric vehicle!
Picked up this Benno 46er e-Cargo bike today and brought it home from Melbourne on the train. (It just fits in the V-line bike area!)
Manufacturer calls this an "etility" bike, normal-ish bike size with bigger carrying capacity. We're intending for it to replace much of our small town car use.
(I often don't ride because either I need to move something biggish/heavy-ish, or because I don't want to arrive somewhere sweaty. This should help with both.)
Two months into e-bike ownership, and have joined the annoying club of "I didn't think this thing would change my habits as much as it did". 😆
One frustration, it came due for first (free) service and I learned only a bike shop with the approved software tools can reset the service indicator. 😡
Wow! I didn't realize, here in the States at least, that the #Surly Big Easy and the #Bakfiets electric #CargoBike are both the same price, around $5,500.
That makes it exceedingly difficult to choose between the two and I could easily see myself using either one in different situations.
Hmmmm...
Does anyone have any advice or experience with either #Ebike to persuade me in direction or another?
@redfox I've only used it a couple of times (I live and work in Bloomington and #ebike everywhere). I'd like to get in the habit of a park-and-ride from the south side when I visit Indy though.
I always wanted to try biking to work someday. But I’m not fit enough to handle a regular bike over the long distance and hills. And then COVID hit, and any hope or chance I had diminished that much more.
I think I finally convinced my husband that we should get ebikes!! I'm excited. I really wanted an electric car for as long as I can remember, but this feels like the best step for us at this point. We barely drive as it is anymore, so I can't see the need for us to spend $$$ on a newer/replacement car in the near future. Already dreaming of the trips we can take on them vs what we can manage on our regular bikes. #bicycling#ebike
Compared to used car prices, unfortunately there are not many used cargo bikes. I think the cheapest new option would be like the unfinished project I'm riding, which is fine on small hills or if you don't mind working hard sometimes, top assist speed 15mph (+~$500 more = moar⚡)
$3k acoustic supercargo, 440lb max load yubabikes.com/cargobikestore/supercargo/
$570 tiny 250W 190Wh #eBike wheel ➕ torque arm hilltopperbikes.com/product/sprinter-12-mile-24v-electric-bike-kit-copy/
20in hub-motor-specific suspension fork for yuba supercargo? I need this bike to have more power but also regenerative braking, and hold traction better on bumps (currently the motor skips/skids slightly on every bump and crack when climbing.) And it needs about 1000W braking power but 350W is enough assist / for tractionary reasons, I need to send any more power than that to the rear wheel & where it can shift gears. #CargoBike#eBike#SuperCargo
Indy installed no-turn-on-red signs at downtown intersections. Are drivers obeying them? (www.wishtv.com)
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