Chapter FiveTool 3
Low-Carbon Transport: The ZEDbike, Electric Vehicles and the Filling Stations of the Future
5.1 The ZEDbike can run for 50 to 70 km on one battery.
The ZEDbike
Personal transport, such as cars, taxis, motorbikes and scooters, is normally the dominant cause of CO2 footprint and cost. If city-scale public transport can be powered by large-scale wind and communal renewable energy systems, it becomes important to develop smaller-scale personal transport systems that are cheap to use without involving fossil fuels. A contemporary electric car only works with a 30 kWh of lithium battery storage, but pedal assisted bikes could ...
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