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Electric bikes make it possible to easily travel around town for less than a penny per day — literally.
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Electric bikes make it possible to easily travel around town for less than a penny per day — literally.
@crisisingot I'm not sure if you can call them the most climate-friendly way - they still use (probably Li-Ion, never checked) batteries in them, which are quite costly for the environment to extract and to dispose once their life cycle has ended.
I might have an unpopular opinion (as many people brag to say nowadays), but I think we should contain Li-Ion batteries to cars until battery technology matures enough in order to get something less polluting powering our stuff. Otherwise, in 10-20 years (or earlier) we will see a lot of such batteries disposed.
So no, I think I'll keep my non-assisted bike going forward even though I have to break a sweat sometimes (I have gears on it, tho, so it's easier, plus my city is not that hilly).
Well you can actually build about 130 or so ebike batteries for every average car battery so if batteries are your concern ebikes are much better in that regard. In general bikes are way more efficient than cars and honestly at should try to limit the usage of all cars, electric or not,as much as possible and ebikes are a great alternative in a lot of cases.
I have no problems with unassisted bikes think of course!
@crisisingot So any type of battery can be used, you say?
I was trying to say lithium batteries. So for the amount of materials is takes to make one lithium car battery you could make around 130 ebike batteries since they're so much smaller.
But yeah I agree with you that we need better programs to actually recycle the batteries.