Digital system automatically reduces electric bicycles’ power in built-up areas
Electric bike engines will be shut down when entering residential or built-up areas of Amsterdam, under a government-funded project to cut road deaths from the increasingly powerful vehicles.
The digital technology, which has been successfully trialled on a four-kilometre stretch of bike lanes at Schiphol airport, was funded by the Dutch ministry of infrastructure and water management.
Continue reading…Digital system automatically reduces electric bicycles’ power in built-up areasElectric bike engines will be shut down when entering residential or built-up areas of Amsterdam, under a government-funded project to cut road deaths from the increasingly powerful vehicles.The digital technology, which has been successfully trialled on a four-kilometre stretch of bike lanes at Schiphol airport, was funded by the Dutch ministry of infrastructure and water management. Continue reading…