In Cycling Industry News, Richard Armitage, chair of the European Cargo Bikes and Cycle Logistics Experts Group has recently written on recent trends of the cargobike industry in the UK. First he highlights years of development finally bearing fruit, with sales showing 50% annual growth. However present sales figures are dwarfed by the potential: The Cargo Bike &…
In the spring, as London was at a standstill, the local authority of Lambeth, in Central-SouthWest London, awarded PedalMe a contract to distribute thousands of food and essential home products to individual homes. The cycle logistics company uses a mix of Urban Arrows XL cargobikes and big trailers. Over the duration of the contract they…
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Ursula? Present regulation determining the status of light electric vehicles is a bodge. Essentially a list of requirements was drafted in the last century to exempt e-bikes from Regulation 168/2013 (type-approval for mopeds and motorcycles). The most important of these requirements were pedal…
Using capacity on passenger trains for transporting parcels and using train stations as hubs for urban deliveries by cargobikes is no-brainer that unfortunately is rarely exploited because of silos thinking in the rail industry. It is therefore good to see InterCity RailFreight expand its same-day parcel delivery operation in the UK. From their website: ICRF…
From Scottish Power Energy Networks £20 million green economy fund comes a grant for a community delivery service run by Soul Riders in Glasgow. Glasgow has a target of becoming the UK’s first net zero emission city by 2030. The bikes, two Urban Arrows and one Bullitt, will be run by SoulRiders from its warehouse…
Prodrive Academy in the Netherlands offers cargobike riding lessons to corporate riders, who may not be familiar with the handling skills required to ride safely a heavily laden two wheeler. “The collaboration between Urban Arrow and Prodrive came about through a shared contact at PostNL,” says Mark Maaskant, founder of Prodrive Academy. “We help companies…
From March 2021, companies and organisations in the Swiss town of Sankt Gallen can hire one of 10 e-cargobikes for one year for free. The bikes can be branded with the logos of the individual businesses. At the end of the rental, the businesses can purchase the bike with a 30% discount, or return it.…
The pilot is an initiative of Fulpra and PostNL, in cooperation with the municipality of Nijmegen. Nijmegen is working on an emission-free inner city. The cargobikes are made by the Utrecht-based Fulpra. The Province of Gelderland has contributed to the development and construction of the cargobikes. The Gelderse Corridor programme stimulates sustainable and clean transport.…
Darmstadt will have two complementary cargobike hire systems; one using the hosting model, and free to users, and one using docking stations, and available to users for a small fee. The city in Hesse already has a fleet of five cargobikes available for hire for free; there are plans to expand the number of bikes.…
Last year, the Accel Group purchased the company that makes Babboe Bikes. This week, we read that Urban Arrow has been acquired by Pon BV. This should give the fast growing Amsterdam based manufacturer the capital to increase its production capability and lower the waiting time for retailers, which this summer had reached four months.…
Three examples from the UK Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust Cut Carbon-Emissions Using Cargo Bikes From October 2019, Newcastle Hospitals is trialling zero-emission e-cargo bike courier deliveries every weekday for three months to help reduce local air pollution and combat the advancing climate health emergency caused by climate breakdown. In partnership with ZMOVE, the NHS Foundation…
The Independent and others report that DPD will be deploying ten EAVs in different depots around Europe, in the UK, (London, Newbury and York), Ireland, Spain, Germany, Portugal and France. The electric-assist quadricycles have a low centre of gravity (the main chassis is below the wheels’ axles) and according to Adam Barmby, founder and technical…
Cycling Industry News reports: In a trial in Stevenage, Central England which has around 45km of segregated cycle paths, local cargo bike delivery firm Bike Box Delivery has partnered with ShopAppy – an app which has been designed to support local shops with a click and collect service, currently operating in a number of UK…
“Our van drivers are averaging between 10 and 12 deliveries a day while the e-cargobike riders can do more than 30 deliveries a day,”said Doug Hutchinson, Head of Absolutely Sameday, a Central London courier firm. More here
Olvo is a Paris-based cargo bike cooperative, in great expansion; from eight employees at the end of August 2018, there are now 19 in the team. Cycling Industry News reports on a new customer for the cooperative: Ikea’s first downtown store in La Madeleine, Paris, opened on Monday, and customers can now have products sold…
