If your EVs aren't selling maybe that's because you're making giant fucking trucks and SUVs and hyper-expensive luxury sedans and the kind of people who want EVs mostly just want a compact car for getting to work and running errands.
@tess The affordable, efficient, small #EV most people want is an #eBike and/or #cargoBikes which use 1/100th the amount of #lithium and other #carbon-intensive resources, costs less to own two #eBikes than one year of car expenses, don't have to give up your old gas car yet, no worries for #parking or grid-scale crisis about charging infrastructure. All we need are #transportation Engineers who don't fruitlessly waste every inch of city streets on cars, and some transit priority lanes instead.
@acdha@peterdutoit no sector's emissions are going to completely stop overnight but my point is that we need to compare the amount of actual reduction for the time period in question, and I haven't seen any analysis of 2020 emissions that got this right. Most are comparing the whole year to 2019 and concluding that we're powerless to stop #GlobalWarming, when the reality is that people could just ride #eBikes to the grocery store and the oil industry would collapse.
If you support walkability and safe streets but only if zero drivers perceive themselves to be inconvenienced by the infrastructure, then you don't support walkability or safe streets.
alt text: crying feels guy meme: "I... have to drive around the block and pay to park here!?", the driver's tears flow into protected bike lanes across the bottom of the image with happy children and financially secure adults enjoying the wind in their hair and a livable city with plentiful #transit as they ride to errands and other short trips in the neighborhood on comfortable upright bikes, #eBikes and #cargoBikes. #BanCars#BikeTooter
hi #BikeTooter - what electric bike (if any) would you recommend to an adult who learned to ride fairly recently? Lives in an urban setting, looking to do leisure/fitness riding mostly for now. Fairly cautious rider. #EBikes
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.
And what, call them motorcycles? If passed, this will not end well.
I’m very keen on e-bikes, I see older and less capable people riding them all the time and it increases the number of people on the roads cycling rather than driving. Apparently they have no plans at the moment to up the maximum powered speed.
"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
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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.
Go for a ride on your bike. I do regularly, for no particular reason... from my little cottage, into the forests, with my parter who for some reason unknown to me tolerates my shit. 50km this ride, ebike for the steep mountain :)
Find a spot and sit, watch the birds before they're all gone . Wedge Tailed eagles, yellow tailed cockatoos, Wrens and finches today.
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.
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Day 9: Static tests of the suspension with a rear-mounted battery: with me sitting in the seat, there’s about 0.5 inch (1.2 cm) of vertical travel available. This corresponds to about 30 lbs (133 N, or 13 kg-force) of force. That doesn’t feel like enough of a buffer.
So, instead, I’ll be mounting the battery on top of the rear rack. As a future upgrade, I’ll mount it under the frame, just in front of the rear wheel. (1/2)
Day 14 of my recumbent ebike build: prototype for the display housing finished printing. I removed the supports, and went about trying to assemble it. Immediately noticed that the display is too wide to fit! D’oh! I continued to test the part and make notes on it, including mounting it to the bike. Where it looks pretty great.
I’ll definitely be making another prototype part before I make the final part.
Day 10: I made the extension cables for the throttle and brake. These use standard JST-SM plus, yay open standards! Each cable is multiple wires all in heat shrink tubing for cable management reasons.
After, I installed these on the bike, along with the battery <-> motor controller. I slid them into some spiral wrap, which looks quite nice! 😊