ECF

With this report, ECF presents the first overview of financial incentives for e-cycling in Europe. It shows that numerous countries, regions and local authorities in Europe have already realised that promoting electric bikes through grants is a very cost-effective way to achieve the decarbonisation of the transport system: E-bikes open up cycling to new groups of the population and have a high potential to replace car trips. They also come with a small price tag: On average, they cost less than 8% of the price of an electric car.

Therefore, ECF calls for a comprehensive and balanced electromobility policy that takes into account all modes of transport and is not only focused on improving emission values of one mode, without taking into account problems like congestion or the use of public space in our city. We are convinced that this approach will help us to make the mobility system as a whole more sustainable and to make our cities and regions more livable.