They just need to integrate like China and sell an open source EV.
Even before e-bikes were serious over a decade ago, the problem with buses is the limited bike capacity. That is what got me doing major commuting. The bus would show up with 3 bikes already on the rack and I could wait 30 minutes for it to happen again or just go for it on the bike. I was faster than a 2 bus route for 20 miles so I just started riding all the time.
If you really want to change the world, design the whole system around the e-bike so that it is easy to do a hub and spoke type transit that is optimised for no more than 1/8th of a charge on the average e-bike between any common destination and a hub. Make human transport secondary to e-bike transport. Like design a double decker where the entire side of the bottom of the bus is open and can be filled with a few dozen bikes while loading a dozen or more at one time.
They just need to integrate like China and sell an open source EV.
Even before e-bikes were serious over a decade ago, the problem with buses is the limited bike capacity. That is what got me doing major commuting. The bus would show up with 3 bikes already on the rack and I could wait 30 minutes for it to happen again or just go for it on the bike. I was faster than a 2 bus route for 20 miles so I just started riding all the time.
If you really want to change the world, design the whole system around the e-bike so that it is easy to do a hub and spoke type transit that is optimised for no more than 1/8th of a charge on the average e-bike between any common destination and a hub. Make human transport secondary to e-bike transport. Like design a double decker where the entire side of the bottom of the bus is open and can be filled with a few dozen bikes while loading a dozen or more at one time.