While cargo e-trikes definitely are a greener, cheaper-to-maintain alternative to delivery vans, their layout is limited by having to accommodate a chain-drive drivetrain. The Yakbike takes a different approach, as its drivetrain is electronic.
It’s a viable concept as an EV, so the innefficiency you’re citing is really only applicable to the value added by pedalling… that can be as innefficient as it wants to be, since it’s just extra… it’s still value added…
Don’t pedal then?
It’s a viable concept as an EV, so the innefficiency you’re citing is really only applicable to the value added by pedalling… that can be as innefficient as it wants to be, since it’s just extra… it’s still value added…
No?