Partial Fuel Energy Answer for America: Electric Bikes, a

by Robert U. Ayres, Edward H. Ayres

This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide ( 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. How electric bikes may help reshape urban transportation--slashing fuel use and carbon emissions, and improving convenience, too. Battery-equipped electric-bikes have the potential to change the commuter game radically. Even if limited to 15-20 mph, they'll be able to use the bike paths or reserved lanes many cities are building into their plans. If just 20-30% of short urban trips shift to "e-bikes," fuel use will drop enough to help bridge us to a cleaner, more secure energy future....

9 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 13, 2010

About the author

Robert U Ayres is an American physicist and economist who went to the University of Chicago hoping to study with Fermi, but wrote his doctoral thesis at King’s College London. He has written or co-authored some twenty books and two hundred scholarly papers in a long career in the United States and Europe. He is an emeritus professor based in Paris. He has had a 40-year interest in the Shakespeare authorship.