<story><title>Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips</title><url>https://www.ridereport.com/blog/ebike-inventive-programs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>d_sem</author><text>When you factor in the reduced capital costs, carbon emissions, noise pollution, traffic, wear on infrastructure, health benefits, etc of electric bicycles the opportunity cost of car ownership over e-bike adoption is tremendous. The average cost of owning a car in 2022 is $10,728 per year: a figure which blows my mind.(edit: Source bankrate.com, the top hit on google)&lt;p&gt;As a personal anecdote, my household has gone from 3 cars pre-pandemic (2 commuters + 1 back up beater car) down to 1 commuter, 1 e-bike, 1 bicycle. The change has been startling in improved quality of life.</text></comment>
<story><title>Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips</title><url>https://www.ridereport.com/blog/ebike-inventive-programs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Not mentioned in the summary but super relevant to understand what they are talking about:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; After nine months, the City had spent $4.7 million to provide vouchers to 4,734 Denver residents [for ebikes and equipment to ride in the winter]&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a bit skeptical of some of this data:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 65% of Ride Report&amp;#x27;s Ride App users were riding at least once daily, and 90% were riding weekly.&lt;p&gt;In the report, it mentions the Ride App was iPhone only and &amp;quot;Our sample size consisted of 70 riders across 12 of the 19 participating local bike shops&amp;quot;. Is that 70 iPhone users out of the 4,734 voucher recipients? It seems like it would &lt;i&gt;wildly&lt;/i&gt; skew any survey data to expect them to be representative.&lt;p&gt;Sadly they do not report any other survey data, like how many of the recipients even completed the online survey. I suspect there&amp;#x27;s some huge self selection going on. It&amp;#x27;s hard to take these numbers at face value.</text></comment>