Whew. So much going on. Today's post is going to be short and sweet. Bulk purchasing electric bikes is like taking aspirin (or having a...

NYC is the site of a great new initiative called the Equitable Commute Project (ECP). ECP is a 3 year pilot to provide sustainable,...

The New York Times featured an Op-Ed this week about how simple and powerful an idea it is to simply give people free ebikes. The...

The city council for the City of Berkeley recently voted in favor of providing free rides on the area's bus service, AC Transit. As the...

FreeBike was part of a call the other day with a dozen or so people who are running various public ebike programs. Overall, the takeaways...

Bloomberg's CityLab publication has a nice story this week about bike libraries. They point out that ebikes are super-useful vehicles,...

The map above shows bicycle lanes across Europe. In the Netherlands (you can identify it on the map, even without borders drawn in), many...

Tldr; group buying of light electric vehicles means getting vehicles (and spare parts!) from around the world, and the great news is that...

The quality of the ebikes and escooters available in the marketplace today is seriously impressive. The progress over the past decade,...

If you close your eyes, electric vehicles can seem like magic. Quiet, smooth, and with no tailpipe, they're better than gas vehicles in...

FreeBike helps groups buy light electric vehicles in bulk. FreeBike also helps those groups deploy those vehicles to users in long-term...

Ok, this is a really important blog. This is a blog about relationships, aka the foundation of life on our planet. A few years ago,...

FreeBike is happy to report the opening of The Hub NYC, a center for supporting cargo delivery riders in New York City. The Hub offers...

If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Well, as of today, in half a dozen large metro areas in the US, it is possible to very...

A major city on the West Coast recently did a community needs assessment regarding transportation, trying to understand where new bike...

Building blocks. Ladders. Bootstraps. Shoulders to stand on. When we talk about making a better life, one way or another we talk about...

The world is in the midst of a beautiful transition, away from moving by burning oil, to moving by letting electrons flow. Those...

The 'free' in FreeBike is about freedom. Freedom to go whenever and wherever you want. That type of freedom is essential, because going...

Oooh, the debates are RAGING!! Make public transit rides free, but with lower service levels? Or increase fares, to try to improve...

FreeBike is in the business of planting seeds. There is no doubt that buying wholesale ebikes, and lending them to people at low or...