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It's a faulty comparison: If you drove only in city traffic, your costs per mile would be at double or more. A few hours at highway speed is low-cost. Cost per
by Zigurd 5y ago
It's a faulty comparison: If you drove only in city traffic, your costs per mile would be at double or more. A few hours at highway speed is low-cost.
Cost per city journey, including parking, would be a more enlightening comparison. And if you substituted an e-bike for those journeys your car costs per mile would drop.
- kashkhan 5y agoLexus RX 30 MPG on highway 18 MPG on city streets with medium traffic (Denver Metro) So yes city uses twice the gas. But average is 24MPG. I bike (no battery) and it is super efficient for 5-10 miles. My point was ebikes make no sense economically.
- hnov 5y agoYet. I think part of that is that cars are ubiquitous enough for you to able to buy a fully depreciated, reliable Japanese car for the cost of a decent ebike, we have some of the cheapest fuel in the world and everything is built around cars. I expect economies of scale to kick in with eBikes while cars continue to become more and more expensive to run in dense urban centers.