An electrical bicycle for the daily work commute
Ralf Haller
September 29th, 2007
If you need to hop from Zurich to London at short notice you don’t have to wait for Easyjet to come back (I think in October) but can simply use Air France, which operates at extremely low costs and offers a much better service than the low-frills, low customer service Easjet. Now on my last trip I found a nice gadget in the airline magazine. An electrical bicycle that seems the ideal vehicle if you live in a small to medium-sized city/town, don’t want to add to the pollution, but want to be fast. It seems like a great idea. You simply recharge from a normal electrical outlet and then obtain up to 25km/h speed and 30-45 km of traveling distance. Recharge time is 6-7hours, so overnight basically. Price is 790 EUR which seems reasonable as well. So in short I can see some good reasons for people to use it, particularly in central European cities and especially in the summer. In the US, distances are usually too big so I would think not an appropriate fit unless you live 5-15km or so away from your work place.
