It’s marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you’re an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious
It’s marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you’re an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious
I think it probably accounts for “likelihood of use within a distance” where the average person is likely to use an E-Bike for a 30 minutes ride but not a bike. So the regular bike only decreases your impact within a like 15 minute radius of travel.
So as an individual it would always be best to stretch the distances you go as far as possible with the least consuming mode, but as a population, the E-Bike prevents more driving/bus riding/ horse riding (?) than a bike does.
I was gonna say this. I imagine there’s a lot of people for whom their lives wouldn’t really be serviced by a regular bike, unless they were a super avid cyclist and okay with being tired and sweaty all the time, and would still end up using a car a lot even if they genuinely tried to bike as often as they could. But an e-bike fills up a lot of those gaps.
It’s me, I’m the lazy bastard. (Not really, but I’m a absurdly sweaty bastard if it’s above 20C and I have to exert myself above a light stroll, so E-Bike has saved me many times from relenting to a car ride to the city center)