The motorcycle is one of the affordable community transportation and is very efficient for carrying goods or passengers to a place that far enough. Any motorcycle can be more efficient than mass transportation that has not been perfect, especially when living in places that lack of mass transportation. Therefore, more and more people choose to buy a motorcycle, even many who switch from driving a motorbike so that stuck. Electric bicycle or electric bike is one of the alternative means of transportation that is cheap and does not remove the pollution.
According to daily newspaper business, the data in 2005 for a population of circulating motorcycles in developed country, there are as many as 35 million, 8:26 million passenger cars, trucks 5:41 million, and 2.72 million buses.
Meanwhile, the Central Statistics Agency data for 2006 for Jakarta, the number of these vehicles has reached 7,773,957 units, consisting of 1,816,702 units of cars, motorcycles 5,136,619 units, 503,740 freight units, 316,896 units and buses. The number of motorcycles in Jakarta 1035 increased per day, or nearly five times the growth of the car. According to Forum of Public Transport Safety Transportation Indonesia (MTI), the vehicle population will increase from approximately 45 million units in 2007, to 50 million in the next five years.
Imagine how much pollution is generated by bike course!
Now there is a solution or an electric bicycle electric bike started locally grown and produced in developed country. Electric motorcycle battery is only used so as not remove the pollution at all. Electric motorcycles is already run at speeds up to 60 km / h so to drive in the city is very pretty. Especially if only the home to the office or home to the campus. Because there is power, then the bike was complete with lights sein, lights, horn, and brake lights.
Detik.com write one electric motorcycle manufacturers provide information the estimated cost of travel a distance of 80 km is only Rp. 800, -. This calculation is obtained from the energy consumption of 1.5 kilowatt hours (kWh) to travel 80 miles on flat roads. Currently the basic tariff for 1 kWh of electricity to reach USD 600, so that electricity costs for 80 kilometer distance was only USD 900. Meanwhile, to travel 80 kilometers, the conventional motor fuel is estimated to require up to 2 liters of gasoline. Thus, the bike is burdened cost of gasoline USD 9000 for the same distance. So can save up to 90%.