Trading Old Cars for Electric Bikes: France Moves to Offer Handsome Financial Incentives
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Reducing Number Of Cars Better For Planet Than Making Them Green, Decides French Parliament
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E-Bikes for Everyone! David Zipper © Provided by Slate If the Dutch can do it, so can we. Robin van Lonkhuijsen/Getty Images
While flying taxis, autonomous vehicles, and the hyperloop all have their skeptics, there is one emerging transportation technology that everyone seems to love: the electric bicycle. Its fandom comes in many forms. Policy wonks celebrate e-bikes as an environmentally friendly alternative to driving, health advocates applaud the outdoor exercise they enable, and a growing number of converts simply think they’re a hell of a lot of fun. As one self-described e-bike stan put it in Gizmodo: “Hills? No problem when your bike has a battery boost. Sweat? See ya never.”