[mataug]

Can we also talk about the fact that the fastest growing EV market isn't for cars, its for e-bikes[1], and e-bikes are crazy efficient, and 20x-30x cheaper, compared to electric cars. Example, an e-bike with 400wh ~5 charges of a laptop battery, can get 30 miles of range, compared to ~250wh/mi of a car[2].

Cities are slowly waking up to the fact that more people are biking, and more biking infrastructure leads to even more people biking.

I'm not trying to say that the problem highlighted here isn't valid, I'm merely trying to highlight that the scale of the problem might be lower than we expect.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/16/21016306/electric-bike-e... [2]: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2023/04/12/why-an-e-bike-inc...

[bullfightonmars]

This is the way. Building out dedicated bike infrastructure in cities will come at a fraction of the cost of any other investments and provide for a transit mode that suffers from none of these problems.

[rendang]

Bikes and ebikes are great, but the ceiling on adoption is too low to make a dent in CO2 emissions on the scale of EVs. No large metro in the US has more than about 5% commuting share on bikes.

See for example https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/best-cities-for-bike-co...

[smileysteve]

Now do Tokyo, Amsterdam, or London.

Bikes pair very nicely with public transit for last mile connectivity.

[jseliger]

I just got one of these: https://magnumbikes.com/collections/commuting-errands/produc..., granted for under $2k due to a sale at a bike shop, and it's great.

[bertil]

Indeed: “The grid isn’t ready for 300M Electric Monster Trucks by 2030” but the grid will have no problem to power 300M electric bikes.

[peteradio]

Lol, you like riding bike in the rain? What about in the snow? What about when its excessively hot out? The US doesn't want and will not use 300m bikes. Or do we expect the US to come to a stop when its anything but pleasant outside?