CITY ELECTRIC
Adam Ridgway, founder and CEO of ONE MOTO Electric Vehicles discusses the environmental impact of fuels, and whether electric is the way to go
Adam Ridgway, founder and CEO of ONE MOTO Electric Vehicles discusses the environmental impact of fuels, and whether electric is the way to go
What is the cost to the environment of using traditional fuel-powered motorbikes? When considering the costs to the environment regarding electric vs. petrol, pollutants have been overlooked by many governments around the world - many people do not know that petrol motorcycles produce 16x more hydrocarbons than SUVs - that’s if they are well maintained and up to 50x if they aren’t. But what does this look like in relative, visual terms? The Carbon emitted from these petrol delivery motorcycles equals 16,560 tonnes of CO2 per year, that’s the equivalent to a 20,000 square foot warehouse or a 16 storey building, yet what does this really mean? To make it as comprehensible as possible, the same carbon would be sequestered by 273,000 seedling trees being grown for 10 years. That’s each year. That’s just based on the 12,000 vehicles in the UAE. When we consider Pakistan to have 20 million motorcycles, or India’s 50+ million - this is seriously affecting the air quality, and contributing to the humanities greatest killer. Why are electric motorbikes the way forward for the logistics sector?
Having spoken to most of the major food delivery and lastmile operators in the country, 30% have a sustainability mandate, yet 100% have a financial one. We’re able to calculate the cost savings to the operators and end customer by reducing these overheads by >50%, how? No fuel, no fuel servicing industry, no maintenance, no servicing this has a qualified financial figure, yet the biggest attractor is the downtime the operators save. With the ONE