Why Go Electric
In recent years, electric motor and battery technology has advanced tremendously. Today's LEVs (Light Electric Vehicles) have clear advantages over fossil fuel powered vehicles in the areas of performance, ease of use and operating costs.
Pollution Free
If you drive a car the typical 12,000 miles a year, your vehicle annually leaves four and a half metric tons of carbon in its wake. Because electric vehicles run on batteries and do not burn fossil fuels as their main system of propulsion, they provide the opportunity to reduce your personal environmental impact and improve local air quality.
You don't have to get rid of your car, just use it less.
Total reliance on petroleum for the transportation sector cannot be sustained this century - - we must find other fuels. Governments and ultimately consumers are demanding cheaper and cleaner energy sources.
Government officials, concerned citizens and environmentalists all over the world support Electric Vehicles because they can improve air quality, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Countries throughout the world recognize the need to move to alternative modes of transportation as limited natural resources grow scarcer.
Today's electric bicycle technology provides clean and convenient ways to get around, run errands and even commute to work or school.
Electric bikes are a new and promising alternative form of urban transportation. They provide all the advantages of a regular bicycle: fun exercise, free parking, zero emissions, and freedom from gridlock, while eliminating one of the bicycle's more serious drawbacks, lack of power. Imagine pedalling up a hill as comfortably as riding down, that's what the e-bike experience is all about. In most situations in the city, riding an electric bike will be faster and cheaper than either car or public transit.
Fundamentally, an e-bike is just a regular bicycle with an electric motor to provide additional assistance. You can pedal normally and just use the motor to help out on hills and headwinds, or use the motor all the time just to make riding easier. The experience is entirely different from riding say a scooter or motorbike. Here the electric assistance is perfectly smooth and silent, and it complements rather than supplants human power.
Plenty of Torque
With there 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. Quiet electric vehicles 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. No foul exhaust or gasoline fumes and it never leaks oil. You can safely store an electric vehicle in your home.
Economic Ride
Electric motors cost almost nothing to run. Instead of burning up expensive fossil fuels every trip, electric vehicles are recharged by plugging them into the wall sockets. Given the rising fuel prices worldwide, going electric makes good financial sense.
THE FUTURE IS ELECTRIC
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