Ebikes + renewable energy is more efficient even than a human riding a traditional bike! The energy has to come from somewhere.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Interesting! I thought for sure ebikes would have higher emissions. Is this graph excluding manufacturing and/or average lifetime emissions?
How does enclosed encumbent cycles stack up? They're more efficient than regular bikes, so using them just increases the lead on other modes of transport?
You can deep dive on the resources down in the footer. I've got to assume reducing the drag would make either ebike or bike more efficient by the same amount. Maybe even slightly better for the ebike since it goes a little faster.