UK slower than European counterparts in adopting cargo bikes | WION

As businesses aim to slash emissions while looking to beat the traffic cargo bikes are emerging as the ultimate winners. Cutting down on road congestion and pollution these bikes are now a common sight on the Streets of London.

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As businesses aim to slash emissions while looking to Beat the Traffic cargo bikes are emerging as the ultimate winners cutting down on road congestion and pollution these bikes are now a common site on the Streets of London we leave you with this next report to tap

Into the growth of carbon bikes that can cut down emissions by up to 90% another day in London another day in traffic the UK capital is among the world’s most congested cities and this frustration is encouraging a growing number of businesses to move from Vans to electric cargo

Bikes Joe Sharp is the co-founder of one such company working in logistics we can get through the traffic faster we can get get across town quicker um ultimately it’s cheaper for the folks who pay to use our services we might be doing sort of 30 40 deliveries

A day on a car black a van 8 to 10 Zero’s carbon free model has helped it carve out a particular Niche transporting artworks there was a movement inside the Fine Art world to be more transparent about the the environmental impact of making art showing art exhibiting art

And we as a company slotted quite nicely into that fine art world uh at that time the environmental benefits are an aspect of the local govern government wants to encourage transport for London estimates the move towards cargo bikes could save up to 30,000 tons of CO2 emissions a

Year individual Traders are also making the change plumber Ben hum wri switched his for pickup truck for an EC cargo bike in 2021 and hasn’t looked back he still owns the old vehicle but it’s taken on a different function several times a day I come back

To the van which is become um a glorified shed in order to load up with any other bits I need for my six or seven jobs of the day I’ve just found that doing jobs by bike has been so much faster for bigger installations Ben gets suppliers to deliver bulky items

Directly to the client but most of the time he gets by with just the tools he can load onto his bike and he’s found Improv ments in his mental health too I find that being stuck in traffic like this can be it can make me feel

Quite pressured if I’m uh if I need to get in a certain amount of jobs in a day if I’m running late for an appointment I know on my ebike exactly when I’m going to arrive to the nearest minute or two located in a Warren of Railway archers

Near London Bridge station fully charged is one of the UK’s leading retailers CEO Ben janelli says growth in the UK has has been astronomical every day in the paper there’s another thing you know London’s traffic has grow to a halt you know uh fuel prices have gone through the roof

Ules um pollution this that it’s just everything it’s like a pyramid that has basically built the market for ebikes despite the growth the UK still lags behind some other European nations in cargo bike adoption Germany is the continent’s largest market with Denmark and the Netherlands not far behind

But with a 30% increase in UK EC cargo bike sales in the year to May 2023 it’s clear that the market is continuing to shift through the Gears