280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
arstechnica.com
E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
  • frostbiker@lemmy.ca
    44·
    1 year ago

    the dockless rent-a-scooters need to go

    Yeah, I get it. Private vehicles everywhere on the side of the street are an eyesore and take a ton of valuable public space. If at least e-scooters were as small as a car it wouldn’t be such a big deal to see them parked everywhere.

    • kamenoko@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      They’re also stupid dangerous to use and provide almost no protection if a car finds you, or you hit something the wrong way and go flying.