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Espiritdescali@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 years ago

280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles

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280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles

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Espiritdescali@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 years ago
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E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
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    These are also filling up land fills!

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      ebikes are filling up land fills? Show me where and I’ll go and salvage them

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        Yeah, I’d expect they’re mostly recyclable as scrap, and the batteries are full of valuable cobalt that will become more and more recyclable as facilities are built out to extract it.

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