Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
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#3Impressive results. Now the question is will they commit to a program with so few costs and so many benefits, or will they just forget it like most American cities forget their "pilot" programs?
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#4When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google)
As a personal anecdote, my household has gone from 3 cars pre-pandemic (2 commuters + 1 back up beater car) down to 1 commuter, 1 e-bike, 1 bicycle. The change has been startling in improved quality of life.
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#5Not mentioned in the summary but super relevant to understand what they are talking about:
> After nine months, the City had spent $4.7 million to provide vouchers to 4,734 Denver residents [for ebikes and equipment to ride in the winter]
I'm a bit skeptical of some of this data:
> 65% of Ride Report's Ride App users were riding at least once daily, and 90% were riding weekly.
In the report, it mentions the Ride App was iPhone only and "Our sample size consisted of 70 riders across 12 of the 19 participating local bike shops". Is that 70 iPhone users out of the 4,734 voucher recipients? It seems like it would wildly skew any survey data to expect them to be representative.
Sadly they do not report any other survey data, like how many of the recipients even completed the online survey. I suspect there's some huge self selection going on. It's hard to take these numbers at face value.
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#6When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google) As a personal anecdote, my household has gone fr…
How is that yearly cost figure derived? I can't imagine it is repairs, gas, tolls, registration and maintenance alone.
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#7When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google) As a personal anecdote, my household has gone fr…
How is that yearly cost figure derived? I can't imagine it is repairs, gas, tolls, registration and maintenance alone.
That probably includes capital/depreciation? But I agree it seems high
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#8When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google) As a personal anecdote, my household has gone fr…
How is that yearly cost figure derived? I can't imagine it is repairs, gas, tolls, registration and maintenance alone.
Depreciation of value would be the most significant cost. Financing costs might also factor into.
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#9Impressive results. Now the question is will they commit to a program with so few costs and so many benefits, or will they just forget it like most American cities forget their "pilot" programs?
Just looking at reducing CO2 emissions, 0.94 lb CO2e per dollar spent is a terrible return. That money applied to more efficient CO2 reduction options could return 100-1000x better.
Re: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
#10When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google) As a personal anecdote, my household has gone fr…
How is that yearly cost figure derived? I can't imagine it is repairs, gas, tolls, registration and maintenance alone.
It could be including depreciation, loan interest, and insurance.