There’s a global electric transportation revolution underway
The evidence seems to be growing: as the sell-by date for diesel and petrol cars approaches, with growing numbers of new owners wondering if they made the wrong decision, plenty of others are choosing a more radical option for their daily mobility needs: two- and three-wheeled vehicles.
Sales of electric bikes, which glide effortlessly up hills, along with electric scooters and motorcycles, which will replace an already significant urban transportation fleet, are rising sharply, and seem set to meet the forecasts that organizations such as McKinsey made after the end of the pandemic about the growing importance of micro-mobility.
In the year when we are going to see an increasing number of major cities closing their centers to private cars, electric bike manufacturers are attracting investors, while more and more cities, like London are creating bike lanes, distributing electric bicycles to civil servants and replacing delivery vans. Meanwhile, France is offering up to €4,000 to people who trade in their car for an electric bicycle.
But electric bike, scooters and motorcycles, which some studies already say are the future of urban transport, are not some first-world whim: in what is expected to be the world’s largest market in a few years, India, they are the basis of a revolution. The…
