Everyday riding enjoyment and up close with nature
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Lars Schneider lives with his family in Norway. The winter up there lasts about six months - and yet he has nonetheless opted for an E-cargo bike as his everyday mode of transport. He tells us in a video how this came about.
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Probably the only commercial I want to see again and again.
Me living in Iceland, this is the commercial that sealed the deal. R&M here I come!
I cycled a Load 75 around London thanks to the test ride by Fullycharged. I've never cycled a cargo bike in my life and I was instantly at home. It was effortless to manoeuvre and so smooth.
I love my load 60. it replaced a hybrid auto for me. my commute is fun now, and its such a pleasure to ride it, sometimes i just go out for a city ride for just the pleasure of it. the suspension is ideal. I got the tall box with locking lid, since i have no small children. the range, features, etc, all top notch. This is the one to get if the budget allows. ride safe all!
Nice little vdo, nice bike and beautiful place to live!
Fantastic
Beautiful
awesome. Can't wait to get mine (delivery date June 30th)...
Der verrückte Deutsche mit dem Cargobike. 😁😁Guter Mamm
Was eine geile Werbung !!
Fahre das Load 60 täglich.
Hammer Hammer Geil. Top Video.
1:54 "not burn any fossil fuels" lighting up the camping cooker ;-)
Maybe that was some kind of fancy biogas hahaha
Toll! Trollstigen auf’m Cargobike. Das sagt schon was aus!
Was sagt es denn aus? Guter Elektromotor? Ohne E-Antrieb wäre es eine sehr sportliche Leistung, aber so? Hm, weiß nicht recht.
"Not to burn fossil fuel.." camping stove, whatever generator station provides the power to charge the batter, minus the waste of transmission lines, etc. The whole green thing is just not technically understood by the masses.
the load has two batteries for about 1.25kWh and on that you can travel about 150km (more without cargo, definitely less if uphill but say on average). With the same amount of energy on a very efficient, 20km/l gasoline car you would do about 2-3 km. So the comparison in general really is...well, no comparison.
Going specific about the electricity generation, you are right some fossil fuels are used there but (1) the conversion is still way more efficient than the one that happens inside an Internal Combustion Engine of a car, even when factoring in the waste of transmission lines (which is still peanuts compared to the well-to-wheel losses of any fossil fuel production/transportation chain, especially in terms of CO2 emissions) (2) you can buy renewable energy only for your household if you want and (3) the guy in the video lives in Norway, a country in which almost 95% of electricity is renewable (hydro power).
Even if you want to consider the "average EU" as your power source, which you might, that still has more than 60% of all its power coming from renewables or nuclear (which you can like or not but it is not fossil fuels and it's more or less carbon-free). So of those 150km about 90 are completely carbon free and about 60 are powered by (mostly) natural gas converted to electricity, with an efficiency that is still much much higher than that of an ICE, as already explained. In fact, natural gas-to electricity-to motion on a Load 75 conversion has an efficiency which is probably about 40%-50%(that is not even considering the best and most modern electricity generation technology based on natural gas that are out there, or the possibilty to combine the generation of heat and power). For comparison, the gasoline-to-motion energy conversion of a modern ICE car is around 20%-30%, usually in the low range if not brand new.
Bottom Line: An electric (cargo)bike is not "perfect" as a means of transport, but boy it is a step forward.
So yeah, I agree that the "whole green thing" is just not technically understood by the masses. Good point.
No helmet for the kids I see.
It’s not that unusual in much of Europe. The narrator plainly stated he’s from Germany which does not have helmet laws. Norway also does not have helmet laws and the only other Scandinavian country with no helmet laws is Denmark (in Finland’s case, it’s only “recommended,” not required). It’s no surprise since cycling in those countries is really safe (Germany has the third highest number of trips by bike, behind only Denmark and Netherlands).
@@ScramJett yea that sounds plenty safe. Here in the USA even with bike lanes I wouldn't feel safe if my kid went without a helmet. Maybe if we are going to the park next door but here you have to go through a stop light every couple blocks if you live in the city. The bike lanes are tiny. The bike trails are not continuous and regularly connect with the road. How I wish it was easier to get around on bike here. Even in Seattle where it is extremely bike friendly it's hard to go on a ride that doesnt take you near speeding cars at aome point.
grumpy American :3 ... I see.
@@ScramJett I'm German and I always wear a helmet. I once almost got run over by a car. Had lights on both rear and front and a neon jacket, yet the driver only saw me about five meters before. That was an experience I never wanted to experience again so now I take safer roads or double check every little road at least and always wear a helmet. If I ever had kids I would always let them put helmets on!
@@flores23ization you are so correct. I live in Florida and I have bicycle toured across the US from Vancouver WA to Portland Maine and down to NYC where I took the train to get back to Tampa and I can tell you that riding out on your neck of the woods was some of the most enjoyable riding I have done in the all of the US.
Down here in Florida, we are getting more bicycle lanes but it is still such a car centric city that you see many cyclist using the sidewalks ( your truly included), I have ridden up in Sweden on the Fjords and it was fantastic and just like out west where you are in most cases, the drivers either slowdown or move over to the other lane which for me it always takes a little getting use to as that hardly ever happens down here in Florida. The east coast is such a strange place to ride a bicycle and you see little pockets in cities like Asheville, NC, Chattanooga, TN , Portland, ME, Burlington VT, where people are more accepting towards cyclist. I personally think the reason we are still having the confrontational issues among cyclist and drivers is that in many instances, people in America, see cyclist as destitute and or transit people, who are at the negative end of the economic spectrum and we are so embedded in consumerism that for those of us who have made the conscious choice to not own a car and ride to as many places we can ride to as possible and use public transportation as a normalcy but finds ourselves explaining to a future date why a middle age man rather live with less, go see , do and experience more and not allocate my economic resources in purchasing an item that is not very ecologically friendly, not very economically sound and utilizes a tremendous amount of labor and economical resources in maintaining and operational cost. Anyway, you point of view is great and I just wish more people would consider the alternative to car centricity.