It's marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you're an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious
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They should have run the numbers on
riding an acoustic bike. I'd be curious to see what the formula says in that specific case.
there's a german blogpost I cant be arsed to translate but it does come out on top of everything, including walking
What about a vegan walking?
The bicycle does give you a lot of mechanical advantage over walking. But also this depends on road surface, condition of the bicycle and also incline. It's hard to specifically calculate, but for most of the built up world the bicycle would clear easily. Unless you're actively searching out loose gravel inclines to walk / bike up.
Let me give you an example, most people hate riding uphill for obvious reasons but the speeds they pull doing this would be a fast jog or a run if they were on foot
I have a bridge to sell you if you believe that
I mean it's easy enough to test for yourself, go run at a continous 15kph for half an hour, then do that speed on a bicycle
But what about a
riding an ebike that's charged solely by renewable energy?
believe it or not, this actually takes carbon out of the atmosphere.