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🔌🚴🏻‍♂️ short trip?

“In US, a staggering 60% of all car trips cover less than 10km/6 mi…

for short trips,
an electric bike
/moped…better for you –
& for the planet…

because these forms of transport
– electric micromobility –

are cheaper to buy/run.”
Per 📰Conversation

Ex.
Fuel cost🔌$20/year

And yet the only moral panic is about ebikes.

China bans Tesla-style hidden car door handles Common feature in electric vehicles has raised safety concerns

China bans Tesla-style hidden car door handles ft.trib.al/bAASY8s

Need more details. And a picture.

Map of the Netherlands that shows existing intercity routes (in green), planned and funded routes (in yellow), and routes now being planned for implementation (in gray) in the next 5 years.

The Dutch will double intercity bike routes in the next 5 years, from 1100 to 2300km.

Every city has local routes: Utrecht, for example, has 420km of separated bike lanes & bike streets. 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 allow people to safety go by bike throughout NL.

More info:
www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/doorf...

Fake steering wheel. Four wheels, not two. Side-by-side seating. But it has those things that cycling purists love: pedals.

Is it a bike? base.app/post/0x4e7b7...

Jack Reacher doesn't really have a job. He just wanders into trouble. 😆

New California law will target the parents of child e-bike riders Another year and another set of e-bike restrictions. California riders are about to see some notable changes, as several new e-bike and electric motorcycle laws are set to take effect next week. Beginning January 1, 2026, a package of safety-focused regulations will officially go live, aimed at addressing the rapid growth of electric micromobility across the state. more…

New California law will target the parents of child e-bike riders

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Wanted to try lime’s pedal-free ebike but it has a flat. Pretty well graffitied too.

This is the future of transport: effortless bikes. Needs a nice big wide saddle, and not a narrow size 18 shoe to sit on. Needs a rear rack that can also convert to a second seat (see Rivian).

Twenty is plenty.

OPINION by Craig Davis: Come on, where’s the love for e-bikes? E-bikes are inexpensive, safe and sustainable — a modern transportation marvel that makes cycling available to the masses. So why are they seemingly so misunderstood and misrepresented?

thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

Some of the most alarmist takes on Rad's limited battery recall are coming from pedalers who have never liked that Rad (or anyone) sells bikes with throttles. They would rather see 1% of the population pedaling than 100% of the population using throttle-powered bikes to get where they want to go.

Rivian’s e-bike brand launches $250 smart helmet with breakthrough safety tech and lights ALSO, the new micromobility brand spun out of Rivian, just announced official pricing for its long-awaited Alpha Wave helmet. The smart helmet, which introduces a brand-new safety tech called the Release Layer System (RLS), is now listed at $250, with “notify for pre-order” now open on ALSO’s site. Deliveries are expected to begin in spring 2026. more…

Rivian’s e-bike brand launches $250 smart helmet with breakthrough safety tech and lights

*For a select few who have batteries with THAT serial number. Any Federal agency under Trump deserves skepticism. Anti-China/rare earths/battery tech politics play a large part here. Our family's two Rads both run great (3 years now?) and we have zero concerns.

Maybe lead with that. 😐

To be fair, only some of Rad's batteries are affected. Only those w/ the RP-1304 and HL-RP-S1304 serial numbers. See also Rad's stmt to CPSC:

it's really funny how good ebikes are in contrast to how bad electric motorcycles are

COP30 on two wheels: Jet e-scooters transport delegates in Belém As COP30 gets into full force this week, hundreds of e-scooters are transporting delegates between the UN summit’s main zones in Belém, Brazil.

COP30 on two wheels: Jet e-scooters transport delegates in Belém.

As the UN summit gets into full force, Kazakh micromobility operator Jet has deployed hundreds of e-scooters to transport delegates in Belem, Brazil.

Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/cop30...

How Rivian Spinoff Also Is Reinventing The Electric Bike Also, formerly Rivian's e-bike project, unveiled a $4,500 electric bike that it says is packed with Rivian

Meet Also: the spinoff company from Rivian looking to revolutionize the e-bike. More details and a video tour here:

insideevs.com/news/776646/...

I have been waiting for this Rivian ebike for so long, and it is finally here! Some really cool innovations (swappable seat/rear-end!) but only one major flaw: it still has pedals. Pedal by wire is perfect absurdity; it separates effort from transport ... and then makes you do both. v2.0 won't have.

Today, the world became too much, so I resorted to something I used to do more often, which is take photos of the cargo bike on infrastructure I enjoy.

Could Amflow's 1000W E-Bike Ruin It For Everyone? The high-powered Avinox system may have started an arms race.

For discussion: open.substack.com/pub/bermpeak...

Britain’s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers – and unthinkable danger E-bikes can legally travel at 15.5mph. But the fastest the police have seized was capable of 70mph. What will stop the rise of these souped-up and potentially fatal vehicles?

“I got it because I do, like, eight or nine hours a day, and if I’m only pedalling I’m going to get more tired. An e-bike makes it more comfortable.”

a young boy in a cowboy outfit is walking towards an older man ALT: a young boy in a cowboy outfit is walking towards an older man

Was expecting a “Musked” finish at the end.

"That Lectric e-bike is awesome, by the way."

I’m willing to entertain critical discourse about e-scooters and e-bikes if it is substantially and accurately in a frame of “in order for more people to get around without a car, we should…”

Golf Carts Have Taken Over Suburbia. Cue the Resistance. Demand for street legal carts is surging despite complaints from drivers; ‘We all hate you’

"Demand for street legal carts is surging despite complaints from drivers; ‘We all hate you’."

Motorists hate other motorists, golf cart folks, people on bikes, pedestrians, and transit vehicles. Maybe it's time we consider that the problem on our streets are the motorists themselves.