@karimtoubajie.bsky.social
Product Designer & Connected Vehicle Data Specialist focused on reducing CO2e emissions via modes sustainable mobility. 75% of trips by active travel (FY2021).
Electric bikes are the most energy efficient electric vehicle on the planet, capable of travelling up to 40 times further per kilowatt hour than a typical electric car.
That's means with 1kWh an electric bike can travel the equivalent distance from London to Nottingham.
🌡️ It's over for black painted vehicles.
Why we need to design vehicles for hotter cities and prevent exacerbating urban heat islands.
www.toyotaconnected.eu/design/insig...
All trips in London up to 30 minutes are more than twice as a fast as on a bike than motor vehicle and goes some way to explain the growth in micromobility across London.
On a regular bike - it’s possible to travel 10km in 30 minutes. Whilst 10km isn’t far, 74% of all car trips are less than 10km.
3/ In fact, 10 years ago I was using a car for this very job! Fast-forward to today and I now use an E-Cargo bike for 95% of my shopping trips including the supermarket and have done since 2020.
This is what carbon reduction and fun looks like. Buy an electric cargo bike today!
2/ ...what is extraordinary is that in the UK, most trips to the supermarket are made by car.
26.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/ There's nothing out of the ordinary about the weekly shop....
26.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0I'd imagine this is compounded in an SUV as they have terrible low-level visibility.
15.08.2025 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will definitely do this next time! Thanks!
24.07.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Apologies for confusing some people with mixed units - this is a result of simultaneously having to communicate with EU, North America and Japanese teams on a regular basis so I generally need "All the units" 🤣 Will definitely use 1m2 next time!
24.07.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01 square mile would definitely make a lot of bread! This is referring to just 1 square metre (1m²).
That data point was derived from @mikebernerslee.bsky.social "There's No Planet B"
Over the course of a year, 1 SQM of solar panels can generate enough energy to power an E-Bike for 45,000+ miles (73,000+ km).
23.07.2025 16:52 — 👍 112 🔁 31 💬 11 📌 6
Where are the shared cargo bikes in London when you need them?
Would save me 20mins right now and a lot of heavy bag carrying 🏋🏾♀️
E-Cargo bike carrying a baby and 120 litres of bark mulch
Glorious day for a quick lunchtime haul - transporting a baby and 120 litres of bark mulch back from Croxted Road Garden Centre (3.6 miles round trip - equivalent to 54% of all car trips).
🚤 Faster than a car.
💸 Cheaper than a car.
🌍 Better than a car.
Turns out it is possible to transport an old bench to the recycling centre without a car. Also faster and less messy 💪🏼
25.04.2025 12:43 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Celebrating 🌍 Earth Week 2025 🌍 with 2024 being my 2nd lowest annual mobility carbon emissions since 2002 (a student!), ending up at ~272kg CO2e.
⭐ Use micromobility for as many trips as you can (bikes, E-Bikes, E-Cargo bikes)
⭐ Use electric cars
⭐ Reduce flying
⭐ Eliminate 1 occupant car journeys
This is in my current backlog
17.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Given that you can fit around 18 to 20 Lime bikes into the same space occupied by a motor vehicle and Lime reported 4.5 trips per vehicle per day back in 2020 - that's 90 trips being enabled versus 0 to 4 for the motor vehicle.
Also enabling mobility at a much lower cost for hard-working people.
Exeter Services now has 68 high speed chargers 🤯
Should help a lot of people decarbonise their holidays to this neck of the woods 💪🏾
Hi Mark - that exact resource appears to be down now - it was addresspollution.org. Plenty of others though like www.iqair.com/gb/uk/englan...
Still 3.2 times above WHO limits.
The 21st century version of burning books ....
- Trump orders US Dept of Agriculture to take down websites referencing climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We can also use geo-data and other tech used by autonomous vehicles to limit vehicles to the actual speed limit on every road.
29.01.2025 08:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In 2019 I conducted some research in Hackney and Southwark asking residents what they'd most like to transport on cargo bikes.
After children (72% of participants) and shopping (25%) - it was pets (4%).
Here is a dog in a cargo bike wearing a Christmas jumper (Jan `25)
"While China pollutes with impunity" - except that China reduced their YOY emissions by 0.5% vs USA who increased them by 1.3% largely down to surface transport. 🙈 🤦🏾♂️
Data from carbonmonitor.org/variation
How many Lime bikes can you fit in 1.5 car parking spaces?
At least 28.
Great to see articles like this from
@autocarofficial.bsky.social on why electric car manufacturers need to *obsess* over energy efficiency metrics.
Ultimately this means shifting away from autobesity and inefficient SUV form-factors 👏🏾
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ele...
I would be very grateful for any photos people have of the comedy (i.e. not ideal) ways they are currently having to store electric cargo bikes (or E-Bikes) in London.
This will help with a pitch to councils! 🙇🏽♂️
6/ Expect to see a lot more of these in the near future as the drive toward improved energy efficiency, better mobility societies and reduced material usage gains more momentum.
I would expect this class of vehicle to do *very well* in shared services rather than ownership.
5/ It only has a range of 46 miles. This definitely freaks people out.
💡 The average distance driven by a vehicle in Europe on any given day is about 36 miles.
4/ It has space for 2 humans. This also freaks people out.
💡65% of all car trips in Europe only have 1 passenger. Around 85% have 2 or less passengers.
Importantly it has a perfect storage place for a @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social for multi-modal journeys.
3/ It has a top speed of 28mph which freaks a lot of people out.
💡 80% of all car trips in Europe have an average speed less than 28mph.
