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There are several countries in the EU that likes and produces big an heavy cars, Germany is not alone, my guess from this post is that France primarily produce
by emj 7y ago
There are several countries in the EU that likes and produces big an heavy cars, Germany is not alone, my guess from this post is that France primarily produce smaller cars. To make any difference we should make it easy and cheap to buy fast electric bicycles since they have a lifecycle emission that is about one tenth of cars (Blondel, Mispelon, and Ferguson 2011). At the moment customs for chinese electric bicycles are really high in EU.
- baud147258 7y agoI don't think the market is the same between cars and electric bikes. But helping producing affordable electric bike in the EU could be a good idea.
- emj 7y agoI think the markets intersects a lot, at least if you are to trust what the polls made on people who just bought e-bikes, a lot of them used them to replace cars mainly for everyday work and shopping which is HUGE. Research show that more than half of the car users here live 50 min from their work by bike. If we spent money on infrastructure for bikes my travel time by bike could be 10 minutes shorter, that would the 50 min area above even bigger.