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By Richard Schrubb

Cities and countries around the world are facing a dual problem: their transport infrastructure is becoming congested and that is causing pollution that in turn poisons the population and is adding to humanity’s contribution to climate change.

One solution has been to encourage businesses and the general public to use electric cars, vans and trucks.

Overall the take-up has been encouraging with growing numbers going electric both in logistics and among private individuals.

Though this is helping clean up cities’ air and may well be reducing global carbon emissions to some extent, electric car, truck and van subsidies are not reducing congestion that is one of the major factors behind cities’ bad air.

Could subsidising e-bikes be the answer to this issue? [Read more…] about Electric Bike Grant Gets Great Response From Swedish Public

-By Richard Shrubb

Could government subsidies get more people on e-bikes?

A number of European countries have begun schemes to pay towards the cost of new e-bikes.

In Sweden there is a 25% subsidy for all e-bike sales until 2020.

A UK campaign is growing in strength for their government to do the same. Importantly incentivizing people into buying e-bikes isn’t just to support the industry (as many governments subsidize the oil and gas industry for example).

Let’s look at the reasons that e-bike tax breaks or government grants could get people out of their cars and onto their electric bikes.  [Read more…] about Should Electric Bikes Be Subsidized Like Electric Cars?