🌏 Climate Lobby (Finally) Gets Behind eBikes
Plus, Gogoro heads to Singapore and India, San Francisco gives free eBikes to couriers, and eMTBs sweep Germany.
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What You Need to Know Today
For years, American environmental groups have focused their attention on promoting electric cars over electric bikes, even though cycling is proven to be better at warding off climate change. Now that dynamic is starting to change with the new EBIKE Act in Congress.
Gogoro will bring battery swapping operations for electric two-wheelers to Singapore through a new partnership with food delivery company Foodpanda. But that’s not all. The Taiwanese company is also partnering with Zomato and Kotak along similar lines in India.
San Francisco is accepting applications for its pilot program that will transition app-based food delivery drivers to electric bikes—for free.
On the latest episode of The Micromobility Podcast, industry expert Melinda Hanson joins us to discuss the recent spate of eBike battery fires in NYC and beyond, and what can be done to stop them.
Carrots and sticks… While New York City clamps down on fire-prone, gray-market devices, it is also looking at ways of making it easier for people to buy, store, and charge the kind of electric bikes and scooters that are safe and legal to use.
Of course, the problem of battery fires isn’t confined to New York City. China is also experiencing conflagrations and now the national government is looking at improving safety standards.
Last week we noted that electric bike sales are set to surpass pedal cycle sales in Germany this year. What we did not mention is that 90% of all mountain bikes sold in Deutschland are already electric.
Fifteen, a French company that provides bikeshare solutions to cities such as Paris and Helsinki, unveiled a new modular electric bike and magnetic docking system.
In other French bike news: Pony is launching a shared service in Bordeaux and Poitiers, and because of the company’s decentralized ownership structure, anyone can buy a percentage of the bikes and earn a fraction of the revenue.
Some in Amsterdam want to reduce electric bike speeds to 20 kph (12 mph), but doing so would require the national government to pass a new law.
Lanterne, a fleet optimization platform for micromobility, has raised around $600,000 to scale up its software solution.
Europeans spent an estimated €3.1B on shared mobility services in 2022.
Oregon lawmakers are looking at legalizing lane-splitting for motorcycles.
The U.S. Department of Transportations is awarding nearly $95M to advanced technology projects, including numerous initiatives that promote street safety through traffic sensors, cameras, and AI.
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