• Can an electric bicycle take the place of a car?

    Not if you can't use it for shopping—and that's why protected bike lanes are one key to reducing carbon emissions.
    These days I’m riding an electric bike. I didn’t intend to. I believed that a decarbonized future would be ushered in by electric cars. I bought one. I wanted one that I could throw a bicycle in the back. The car was expensive, even with the tax incentives. But boy was it quiet! And the...Read more