i agree, all the advantages of cycling in flat areas, and no need to be a superhero fitness freak to make it up the hills with your kids in back. Nutty pioneers (like ourselves) will do the he-man thing, but it'll just put normal people off. But with electric to level the playing field, normal people can choose bicyclular transport even in hilly areas.
Obviously it comes at some expense, but the electric mundo is only as much as a scooter, with zero emissions, more carrying capacity, and you can ride the cycle lanes (when they happen) and sidewalks (in the meantime) to aviod getting killed by irate cars (got a good licence plate photo on my phone earlier today). I think that ebikes are the future for hilly areas.
thanks for the post, carpooling halves your emissions, and is sometimes hard to organize, good effort!