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The future of transport that has already arrived – The Irish Times

The future of transport that has already arrived – The Irish Times

In January 2020, business consultancy firm Deloitte boldly predicted this decade would be the decade of the electric bike. Despite having been first patented in 1895, e-bikes only accounted for a small percentage of total sales of bicycles in the first two decades of the 21st century. They were clunky, unreliable and expensive. But Deloitte predicted that advances in lithium-ion …

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