Completely innacurate, you already have a metric tonne of motorbikes under 50cc (bromfietsen) riding in the same bike infrastructure as normal bicycles in the N

Completely innacurate, you already have a metric tonne of motorbikes under 50cc (bromfietsen) riding in the same bike infrastructure as normal bicycles in the Netherlands. It has never stopped anyway from riding their bikes. There is a space and a use case for everything. Ebikes fill a gap, they increase commute 'radius' for a lot of people, allow elderly to ride when they wouldn't be able to with a normal bike, etc. \ Also in my opinion ebikes are going to be critical for us to role out the Dutch model in other locations that are not as insanely flat. I cycle everyday for school rounds and general errands on a normal 7 gear bike without batteries but even if they had the same bicycle infrastructure as the Netherlands, I would probably not do the same in hilly cities like Granada, or Bristol or Lisbon, because I would just be sweating all the time. Whatever idea you have of ebikes on steroids is simply niche and not what the average consumer buys as an ebike.