4 year Ebike Project - Chambery, France

[shemozzle999]

Might be better investing in something like this than the millions devoted to electric car charge points:

http://velo-city2013.com/wp-content/uploads/20130613_NicolasMercat.pdf

 

[trex]

quite a few towns and cities in France run a scheme like this.

• Aix les Bains
• Arcachon
• Bagneux
• Besançon
• Blois
• Bordeaux
• Chambéry
• Clamard
• Colmar
• Epernay
• Fontenay-aux-Roses
• GIE Chamnord
• La Motte Servolex
• Les Herbiers
• Lyon
• Malakoff

• Marseille
• Mende
• Nancy
• Nantes Métropole
• Nice
• Paris
• Plaine de l’ain
• Rouen
• Sceaux
• Sète
• Sud De Seine
• Toulouse
• Tours
• Vannes
• Villeneuve

 

[shemozzle999]

I think the government might be interested to send a delegation over to check it out but they would probably be more interested in a free skiing opportunity than talking about ebikes

Might be worth a mention about it to the government via our trade body.

 

[flecc]

Judging by the huge success of our government's campaign to get hundreds of thousands of e-cars onto our roads, maybe it's best not to get their help with e-bikes.

 

[shemozzle999]

It seems as if local/regional run schemes like this have more of an impact than national ones.
If only there was a way to tap into that EU research grant to fund it

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/

Ebikes mentioned about 2/3s of the way down this page.

 

[Electrifying Cycles]

I used to work on an EU programme and it turned one of my very pro European friends the opposite way. You would not believe the beauracracy involved However it would be great to see e bikes recieve some of the money