Go Electric
Electric motor and battery technology has advanced tremendously in rcent years. Today’s LEVs (Light Electric Vehicles) and folding electric bikes have clear advantages over fossil fuel powered vehicles in the areas of performance, ease of use and operating costs. In addition to the financial and environmental benefits, electric bike owners are quick to add that riding these vehicles is fun—and they get “thumbs up” and other encouragement from neighbors as they go by.
Pollution Free
If you drive a car the typical 12,000 miles a year, your vehicle annually leaves four-and-one-half metric tons of carbon in its wake. Electric vehicles provide the opportunity to reduce your personal environmental impact and improve local air quality as they run on batteries and do not burn fossil fuels as their main system of propulsion.
Plenty of Torque
With their sophisticated electronic controls, today’s motors are more efficient and produce an abundance of torque even with very little throttle. A 1-horsepower electric motor has about the same torque as a 3 horsepower gasoline engine and the torque is immediate, on demand.
Quiet Power
Electric motors are quiet and give you an entirely different feeling when riding. Riding gas-powered personal vehicles is banned in many neighborhoods and they are louder than lawn-mowers. Quiet electric bikes seem to glide down the road with ease and are welcomed in most communities.
Clean Machine
There’s no grease or oil to get to get your hands or clothes dirty. It never leaks oil and no foul exhaust or gasoline fumes. You can safely store an electric bicycle in your home or apartment.
Economic Ride
Electric motors cost almost nothing to run. Electric vehicles are recharged by plugging them into the wall sockets instead of burning up expensive fossil fuels every trip. Given the rising gas prices worldwide, going electric makes good financial sense.