The real news is that electric 2-wheeled vehicles and electric cars are both helping curb emissions, and there are a lot more electric 2-wheeled vehicles, and the 2-stroke engines those 2-wheeled EVs are replacing are horrible polluting monstrosities that suffer from incomplete combustion and are ripe for electrification.
Setting this up as some sort of rivalry is a wedge strategy straight out of the big oil playbook to smear electric cars, the biggest threat to big oil’s bread and butter.
Transforming mobility, in general, is a conversation that is extremely worthwhile and needs to be had. The US’s car-centric nature is bad in a plethora of ways that aren’t at all limited to greenhouse gas emissions. I could just as easily claim that trying to sweep the conversation under the rug is straight out of the auto manufacturers’ playbook, and as far as I see it, that is far truer than your claim.
I don’t understand why this comment has so many downvotes, car-centric infrastructure doesn’t suddenly become fine and dandy if the cars are electric. We need to be driving less, and e-bikes are a GREAT way to do that.
The issue here is far too many e bikes are disposable and treated as such. far too many brands have no interchangeability let alone an easy method to get the right parts to do repairs with. there is a lot of cross over with electric scooters as well, remember all those stories of cities trying to clean up the mess they made and the hazards from riders?
The market needs to be more heavily regulated to insure interoperability and availability of parts. then comes the education of riders because without adequate head protection they are a fatality waiting to happen.