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280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Espiritdescali@futurology.today 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ebikes are filling up land fills? Show me where and I'll go and salvage them

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'd expect they're mostly recyclable as scrap, and the batteries are full of valuable cobalt that will become more and more recyclable as facilities are built out to extract it.