“The E-bike is Here to Stay” with Mike Radenbaugh

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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You’ve probably encountered an e-bike in some form or another. Maybe you’ve ridden one. Perhaps one has buzzed passed you on the street, in a bike lane, or on the sidewalk. We’ve seen your requests and we’re glad to finally dedicate an entire conversation to this topic. What’s fueling the e-bike revolution? Is it just a short-lived fad? E-bikes are selling more quickly than cars, according to the Light Electric Vehicle Association, and our guest this week points out that e-bikes aren’t going anywhere. Mike Radenbaugh is the founder and chairman of Rad Power Bikes, the largest e-bike company in the U.S. He built his first e-bike when he was just 15 years old. Radenbaugh joins WITHpod to discuss the distinctions between e-bike classes, how they are reshaping urban transportation, the energy savings case for using them, the need for improved infrastructure, the importance of more safety education and more.

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0:00.0	The e-bike is here to stay and it is going to be a savior for this planet.
0:04.6	Transportation is the number one source of greenhouse gases.
0:08.0	So we need electric bikes just because of that,
0:10.8	but they also happen to have just amazing product fit.
0:13.0	People love to ride them.
0:18.4	Hello, welcome to Wise.
0:19.5	It's happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:21.4	So in the fall of 2020, we came back to, we'd been upstate for the sort of most intense
0:33.9	part of the pandemic.
0:35.8	And we came back to the city because the kids were starting school, even though it was
0:39.5	remote school, but wanted to be in the city.
0:42.7	And that meant that I was going to go into the office every night to do the show.
0:46.6	Now I was staying out of 30 Rock as much as I could because I didn't want to be in a
0:50.5	big office building.
0:51.5	This is obviously a pre-vaccine.
0:53.9	Then there was a question of, well, how should I get to work?
0:56.3	And generally I take the subway, but I wasn't.
0:58.6	I was feeling a little oogie about the subway.
1:00.4	I think in retrospect, to be honest, based on the totality of the data I've seen that,
1:05.1	like, people masking with good high quality masks in the subway is actually probably pretty
1:10.0	low risk.
1:11.4	But I was not really psyched about that idea.
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