March 30, 2021 - According to new recent research emissions from cycling can be more than 30 times lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about ten times lower than driving an electric one reports The Conversation in the UK.

To reduce emissions relatively quickly, and potentially globally, the research shows that swapping cars for cycling, e-biking and walking is the way to go – active travel

Active travel is cheaper, healthier, better for the environment, and no slower on congested urban streets. People who cycled on a daily basis had 84% lower carbon emissions from all their daily travel than those who didn’t.

Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s fossil fuel car fleet.

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