An E-Bike Is Not An Expensive Bike. It's A Cheap Car

17 Oct 2023 | Abstracted from Washington Post

"...the appeal of e-bikes, especially among people who haven’t ridden a bike in decades, may help change cities' car-centric ways..As cities build protected bike lanes, research shows, more people...are likely to ride, especially women and low-income residents, increasing the demand for cities that serve people using two wheels, not just four.

RMI...estimates if even just a quarter of vehicle trips in the 10 most populous U.S. cities were on e-bikes, users would save a combined $91 million every month on fuel and vehicle maintenance."

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