Transport
UK’s first on-street city electric bike hire scheme launches
Exeter has became the birthplace of an ambitious electric bike hire scheme which will be steadily replicated in cities nationwide to create a ‘revolution in urban travel’.
Spearheading the project, Exeter’s Co-bikes is aimed at making getting around the city easy, enjoyable and affordable by conveniently linking up other available forms of travel. Co-bikes achieves a number of UK firsts including first on-street city network of electric bikes and first electric bikes at a UK train station.
Norway’s push to promote electric vehicles
Norway has the highest battery-electric vehicle market share of any country worldwide. A new study has investigated the factors that persuaded consumers to purchase electric vehicles in Norway, and reveals that up-front price reductions – such as exemptions from purchase tax – are the most powerful incentives
An astounding 80% of increases in CO2 emissions in the past 45 years have come from road transport. Electromobility — a road transport system in which vehicles use electricity for propulsion — has been proposed as a method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector.
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