John MacArthur at the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) has publish an interesting presentation on electric bicycles (aka e-bikes), which I found thanks to Michael Andersen at BikePortland. It highlights many interesting facts about this hyper-green human-electric hybrid mode of transportation, and I'd like to share the highlights with you below (but you can check out the whole thing here).

 

That's an interesting stats. I expected conversions to be a lower ratio. This might be a sign that e-bikes are still in the early adopter phase in the US, as these tend to be a bit more dedicated and ready to make a project out of things than mainstream buyers.