September 2022
Beginner
416 pages
10h 42m
English
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Chapter 13
The Best Car Is No Car: Electric Bikes and the Morning Commute
IN THIS CHAPTER
Making the bike argument
Totting up benefits of biking
Categorizing the various ebike models
Looking at who’s in the ebike game
Ihave a request: Please consider not getting an electric car.
Should I have led with that? Maybe so. I’m spending a massive amount of time and energy extolling the upsides of electric vehicles, and here I am in a late chapter advising you not to bother. Talk about burying the lede.
Look: I don’t pretend to know what’s best for your transportation needs, especially given how most of the US has been built after World War II. Over the course of just a few short generations, most of the US (and Canada, but the development pattern most certainly started in the postwar United States) has been conducting an experiment that has no precedent in human history. We’ve fundamentally altered how we build and inhabit our cities, and many of us don’t realize that it wasn’t always this way — that it was indeed altered, and that this 75-year experiment runs counter to how humans have ...
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