Electric bikes make it possible to easily travel around town for less than a penny per day — literally.

  • crisisingot@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    I think the key part of ebikes though is just how versatile they are that makes them so much more practical for a lot more types of trips than anything you mentioned (although I don’t know what the aerodynamic electric vehicles you’re talking about are)

    Ebikes make doing a lot of things you would otherwise need a car for easier. I can’t pick up my kids from school on a scooter or carry as many things on a regular unassisted bike (or at least it would be much harder). Ebikes might not be able to do everything but they can do a lot.

    For a society that is so dependent on cars I think ebikes are a real game changer for that reason.

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        1 year ago

        I can use a couple different ways actually. I have a seat that attaches on the rear rack and a trailer that I can hitch with capacity for 2 kids plus a trunk for extra stuff.

        Recently though we purchased a front load cargo bike which comes with bench seating for 2 kids and we can get an optional extra bench for a third. We could also put a rack on it and have an additional kid (or stuff) on the back as well. Technically we could probably hitch the trailer to it as well but I think that would get a little impractical at that point since it’s already pretty long so the handling with the trailer probably wouldn’t work too well