The electric transport revolution
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
New forms of electric transport are revolutionising the way we travel for both work and leisure.
Soaring gas prices around the world are encouraging people to look for alternatives such as electric bikes, kick scooters and mopeds.
Tara Holmes visits a new bike shop in the Peak District in England, and speaks to husband and wife team, Richard and Madeline Bowker, owners of Criterium Cycles, and gets the chance to try out one of their best-selling e-bikes. The global market for e-bikes today is worth $35billion.
From there, Tara travels to Nottingham to try out an electric kick scooter for the first time on a public road. She also speaks to Kfir Ben Shooshan, founder of Inokim, an e-scooter company based in Tel Aviv in Israel.
We also hear from people who believe the shift to electrification is happening too fast with safety concerns being ignored. Nikhil Inamdar reports from Delhi in India where two people from the same family died following a scooter battery explosion.
Professor David Greenwood, an electrification expert at Warwick University in the UK, offers some tips on how to avoid buying unsafe vehicles.
And, Augustin Friedel, an independent analyst and mobility expert from Germany reveals which countries are most encouraging new forms of electric transport and how this is being done safely.
Presenter/producer: Tara Holmes (Image: A person riding an electric bike; Credit: Getty)
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| 0:00.0 | The way that we interact with food, the beliefs that we have around food, the emotions that food hold, because food isn't just fuel, it has all of these other things. |
| 0:08.4 | In short, we are going to talk about food. |
| 0:11.5 | The food chain is the podcast with a love of all things food. |
| 0:15.7 | Something that is so much part of me. |
| 0:17.8 | Each week, we take a deep dive into a story centered around food. Adventure into other |
| 0:23.3 | cultures. I look at the food as a kind of a global smogers board on which I can choose and pick. |
| 0:30.0 | Every place has their own rituals about it. Multiple identities full of possibilities. |
| 0:35.3 | The food chain from the BBC World Service. Just search for |
| 0:39.2 | the food chain, wherever you found this podcast. Hello, I'm Tara Holmes. Welcome to Business |
| 0:46.7 | Daily on the BBC. Now, if you're fed up of being stuck in traffic jams on the way to work, |
| 0:51.8 | could this be the answer? |
| 1:00.9 | In today's program, I'm going to be trying out some new ways of getting around. |
| 1:06.7 | I think it could be prudent to say that this is more of a student-slash-young person's form of travel. |
| 1:11.1 | Yes, you've guessed it. We're going to be talking about electric transport. |
| 1:16.0 | E-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds have all come into their own since the pandemic. |
| 1:23.3 | And soaring gas prices are encouraging people to ditch their cars for environmentally friendly alternatives. |
| 1:29.6 | I'll also be looking at the dangers of these vehicles and the serious concerns that some people have. |
| 1:37.4 | I live in the UK and today I'm in a really beautiful spot called the Peat District. |
| 1:44.0 | It's a national park in England not far from cities like Manchester and Sheffield and it's very hilly, which makes it an ideal |
| 1:45.9 | place to get an extra bit of powered assistance for travelling around on two wheels. My first stop |
| 1:52.9 | is a shop selling electric bikes on an industrial estate near the town of Bakewell. The global |
| 1:58.8 | market for e-bikes today is worth $35 billion. Sales of traditional |
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