| > Most people are capable of riding a bike - especially an e-bike - to get to where they're going. I'm getting an electric moped or motorscooter at that point. They are more durable, require less maintenance, are safer and handle adverse weather conditions better, can be more easily insured and are harder to steal. Also they usually cost the same or less than a good e-bike. Problem is the main path to move around a city with a vehicle is still, and will still be in the future, a road. We will simply switch to more eco-friendly vehicles. People will still want to move and carry other people and heavy stuff around without exercising, that is a modern obsessions, but not actually so common as one can imagine. Yes people own bikes, yes they do casually run them once a week or every 2 weeks (especially because kids), but except some notable (small and completely flat) exceptions, like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, in Europe Berlin comes third with 13% usage. And Berlin is considered a bike friendly city. Truth is that if numbers were reversed, 13% of the people used a car in Berlin, we would be saying that __only__ 13% of the people are using a car. In London, a 9 million people city (10x Amsterdam), only 2% of the people use a bike. It means that anyway there are more people using a bike everyday in London than in Copenhagen. I think what we really need, especially in oversized-for-no-reason USA, are smaller cars, like the Citroën Ami which I personally love. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami_(electric) |
It is an ebike but is pretty cheap (less than 2k Canadian Dollars) and has a passenger seat as well. Also has a throttle so you don't have to exercise at all if you don't want to.