Cleaner Tech
The EV Revolution Isn’t Only Arriving on Four Wheels
Two- and three-wheelers are a major and important EV success story, BloombergNEF’s head of advanced transport says on this week’s Zero.
A driver on an Acciona SA rental electric motorcycle in Madrid on Aug. 5, 2020.
Photographer: Paul Hanna/Bloomberg
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Cars make up only half the electric mobility picture.
There are around 1.3 billion passenger cars on the road at the moment, the vast majority of which still need to be electrified. But there are also hundreds of millions of polluting two- and three-wheeled vehicles that need to be cleaned up, as well as bigger vehicles like vans, trucks and buses. These are all essential to everyday life, but rarely get the same attention as cars.