MOBILITY
MOBILITY
“ WHAT HAS BEEN FOUND IS THAT HEALTH OUTCOMES ACTUALLY INCREASE ”
LAURA FOX , GENERAL MANAGER , CITI BIKE , AT LYFT
WHAT WILL THE WORLD LOOK LIKE WHEN SHARED MOBILITY IS MAINSTREAM ?
TG : I believe that e-bikes will have their own ‘ iPhone moment ’, as I like to say . If you look at the last 10 years , two significant hardware developments occurred : electrification and connectivity .
You can look at the iPhone or Tesla as examples — the hardware differences became less relevant while software became the main element , and , soon enough , the e-bike industry will follow suit .
LF : I think there are a number of different trends . One is that , in the US , we ’ re seeing e-bike purchases at two times the level of individually-owned cars , which is incredibly exciting given there are lots of incentives to buy a car .
We see increased rates of household e-bike ownership in countries like Germany , particularly in the mid-teens . We ’ re also going through a whole conversation globally around the cost of lithium-ion battery packs and cell packs , and how many e-bikes you could get for the average battery unit of a passenger EV .
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