Electric bicycles set to revolutionise cycling
Electric assist bicycles are set to revolutionise cycling in Britain, according to the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).
Electric assist bicycles are set to revolutionise cycling in Britain, according to the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).
London’s long-awaited mass cycle hire scheme has launched today with “315 docking stations”:/London-cycle-hire-locations-revealed/node/12042 and 5000 bikes available.
The £5,000 grant for buyers of electric cars, which seemed under threat when business secretary, Vince Cable, failed to mention it in the recent emergency budget, will go ahead in January 2011.
Royal Mail claims that increasingly heavy loads are the reason behind its decision to withdraw delivery bicycles in favour of diesel-powered vans.
The need to reduce the amount of gas emitted each day by cattle is more than simply a question of good farmyard etiquette; the greenhouse effect of methane emitted collectively by this country’s 10 million cows is equivalent to the CO2 produced by driving one third of a billion miles by car.