A study of France's ebike grant program found it saved about twice the carbon per euro spent, compared to electric car subdidies.
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Link? I’d love to read it. Also, were they driving giant US SUVs as well? But again, not an either or. We need both.
aug 28, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 0 • view
This is far from the only study to show strong evidence for ebike subsidies in carbon reduction, it's just one of the first examples I found to make the specific comparison with electric car subdidies transportforqualityoflife.com/wp-content/u...
aug 28, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for sending. Will give it a read. But again, not an either or situation in my opinion. We need to “yes and” everything. If you can bike, awesome, please do. I walked today. If you have to drive though, please get rid of that old oil burner and get an EV if you can afford to.
aug 28, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
The problem is it's not "both", active travel is treated as an impossible expense and car subsidies as natural and inevitable.
aug 28, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean the study shows a subsidy for e-bikes so that doesn’t seem to be true then? At least one place can compare them. 🤷♂️ … or we can do what we have in the US now. No subsidies for e-bikes or EVs but massive subsidies for petroleum… not very helpful. If we could eliminate those that would be great!
aug 28, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s an important but different point I’m an e-bike rider, I do not want to be at traffic lights stuck behind the elderly diesel car of another e-bike rider Unless we get people to replace their combustion cars with BEVs, then them owning e-bikes is not going to clean up our air
aug 28, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view