Originally Posted by
Biker395
3. While greener than cars, they are not greener than pedaling, and some of those who turn to e-bikes are people who may otherwise have turned to cycling.
All very good points. Maybe it's an aside, but is pedaling really greener than electric? When you have to burn calories - no getting around that - and the food consumed is mostly grown using farm equipment, shipped by truck, produced with fertilizer and other resource-consuming chemicals, I think the balance may favor the electric.
All points are spot on, but this one is kind of provocative.