Full Title: E-Bike Environment and Economics Impact Assessment Calculator
Author(s): Bryn Grunwald, Kirill Tchernyshyov, Heather House, Ellen Kennedy, and Jacob Korn
Publisher(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publication Date: January 27, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
E-bikes can significantly lower the number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT), reducing transportation-related emissions and their negative effects on the environment, public health, and transportation costs.
RMI’s free E-Bike Environment and Economics Impact Assessment Calculator quantifies these environmental, health, and economic benefits, giving stakeholders critical information they can use to accelerate e-bike adoption, lower overall VMT, and reduce transportation-related emissions.
Stakeholders can use the calculator to see the following:
– The city and statewide annual impacts of replacing a percentage of short vehicle trips with e-bike trips (either over a period of 10 years or through an immediate shift).
– The impacts of potential city or state e-bike incentive programs (using inputs such as the total budget, timeline, and the portion of incentives for income-qualified participants).
– How increased e-bike adoption will reduce greenhouse gas emissions; air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and carbon monoxide; and vehicle miles traveled.
– The degree to which reductions in PM2.5 might help prevent deaths and work absences due to illnesses related to PM2.5.
– Expected electricity costs associated with e-bike charging, expected maintenance costs, and related savings.
– Statewide projections on EV adoption across three scenarios (business as usual, mid growth, and climate aligned) and how e-bike efforts can complement electrification efforts and reduce dependency on internal combustion engine vehicles.