Comments on: 20 Gas Tank Refills, or an Electric Bike?

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:00 +0000

look nice

By: sealcl

sealcl — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:33:00 +0000

I am personally eyeing these e-bikes (http://ohmcycles.com/electric-bikes/) from OHM Cycles. I like the fact that the amount of assistance you get depends on the amount of work you put in, and the fact that they’re a Canadian company.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:30:00 +0000

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:47:00 +0000

My car costs 125 Euros per tank and my Kalkhoff bike cost 1,700 Euros. So thats 13.6 tanks of fuel. Petrol is expensive in Ireland at 1.60 per litre but it is about average for Europe.
And yes I would heartily recommend the bike.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:46:00 +0000

Yeah, i tried to make the point in the piece that there’s a ton of maneuvering room there. Some e-bikes cost several times more than others. Some cars take a ton more money to fill up the gas tank. No idea what they’re assumptions were, but one can think about how much they pay to fill up their tank and what they could buy with 20 refills. I haven’t had a car for about 7-8 years, so didn’t do the math for myself

By: Electric Bicycle Sales to Hit 47 Million per Year by 2018, Report Finds - CleanTechnica

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:09:09 +0000

[…] It Piggy-backing on my post the other day about electric bicycles (focused on the fact that you can buy an electric bicycle for about the same money as it costs to fill up your gas tank 20 times), here’s more electric […]

By: Pangolin

Pangolin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:05:00 +0000

Nowhere do I see this claim validated or expressed numerically. If Kalkhoff has such a page I can’t find it after about five minutes trying. The claim is interesting but would be much stronger with something to back it up.