E-Bikes: An Effective Alternative to Gas Combustion Vehicles

We’ve all heard the line: “If you find petrol expensive, get a bike,” before, but it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. Some have cars for a reason, whether they’re for some practical or other purposes.

Elliott Pascal

10/15/20241 min read

So, if you bought a car so that your family can have a more practical mode of transportation, then sorry, this article may not be for you. However, if you bought a car because you simply found bikes to be too tiresome to use, then we may be able to convince you with another alternative - e-bikes.

Electric bikes have been around for years, but the recent models have evolved as serious contenders to vehicles as far as transporting someone is concerned. E-bikes can get you to places faster than most vehicles because of their nimble nature. Bikes can zip into nooks and crannies that cars cannot pass through.

However, e-bikes have something that regular bikes don’t, and that is the electric motor. The electric component of an e-bike is a game-changer! Anyone could practically benefit from it. The principal benefit is that you don’t have to exert that much effort to pedal forward.

E-bikes take away the "huge" amount of effort of pedaling required in traditional bicycles. E-bikes provide shorter, faster, and more comfortable rides. Most of them have a pedal-assist feature that gives a helpful push to the minimum pedaling done by you. Some ebikes include hand throttles that allow them to be ridden like mopeds with no pedaling, functioning as electric motorcycles, in some ways.

Pedaling is great for exercise, and while it’s awesome that we do a little of that while using regular bikes, we don’t need to arrive at work all sweaty and worn out. Commuter e-bikes are the perfect alternative to that dilemma. A low-cost e-bike with a hand throttle can be a nice alternative to reach work quickly and efficiently.