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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
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We must solve every single problem in the entire chain at the same time or it's not worth it. Apparently.
Improvements to shipping emissions would have a much bigger impact than switching to electric bikes. The US not being so obsessed with beef and corn production wouldn't hurt either.
You seem to be misinformed maybe? Shipping is 3% whereas land transport is about 25% of ghg emissions