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EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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Here in the UK, you can literally buy a decent used car for the price of a new ebike. With prices like this, and poor bike infrastructure, they will never be seen as anything other than a curiousity.
This is how it is in the Canada too.
This is not true for Canada. You can buy an ebike for $2700CAD.
Yeah, and you could buy a used car for that amount...just like what OP said