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We hear lots about our carbon footprint, how big it is and the ramifications of our petrochemical lifestyle on future generations. How easy is it to reduce your greenhouse gas emission in any real way; one that does not have you living in a tent? The answer may surprise you. The electric bike is a giant stride towards your carbon footprint becoming a carbon toeprint, a phrase I have coined to describe a new type of lifestyle..

The biggest hurdle with our personal carbon emissions is our cars and transport. The internal combustion engine really is wasteful, always has been and will be no matter what gizmos they affix to the engine. It’s inherently wasteful. The technology of cars is industrial revolution stuff that we have just learned to manufacture really well, but not cleanly.

We are on the cusp of changing our transportation to non-fossil fuel alternatives, primarily electric. Electric motors are very powerful. What runs the locomotives? What runs the new largest ships in the world. The answer is electric motors; torque abundant, efficient electric motors. What runs the most efficient vehicles in the world? The answer once again is electric motors. The source of the electricity varies, and new technologies are coming along to produce it from all manner of sources, but the product of infinite adaptability, electricity, is always the same.

One choice that can take you to the head of the class with your carbon toeprint is an electric bike. The fuel, electricity, is so cheap as to make it inconsequential in the cost of operation. Electric bikes are so reliable that cross continent voyages are routinely being done by pioneers in a new type of travel. I’m not saying we should cross continents on our electic bikes, though we could. My point is we can, now, today, with great reliability and a modicum of comfort, commute on the ultra-efficient, responsible to future generations, transportation option of today; the electric bike.

Electric bikes are nothing new, quite the contrary, but the battery technology that makes them a practical alternative to our gas guzzling cars is new. The lithium batteries on the best bikes today are nothing less than a revelation. They are light, durable, energy dense and charge for thousands of charges.

The answer to the carbon toeprint lifestyle can entirely embrace the electric bike. They are almost certainly the most efficient motor vehicle on the road. Perhaps they are the right fit for your lifestyle.

http://www.electricbikehub.co.nz/

Tags: electric bike, green design