CNBC has a video about the e-bike boom. They interview a conservative and progressive on this issue. In total, I think this is a balanced view of modern America. One way of looking at the USA is by comparing it to the Netherlands. American cyclists are seen more with their heads in front of their shoulders, racing cars in traffic. Dutch cyclists are more upright on city bikes, and ride leisurely without a helmet. Drivers in the Netherlands are used to sharing roads with cyclists on shared streets and driving faster on roads for cars. These designations don’t exist in America. American drivers are not used to sharing roads with cyclists. For example, there are common accidents where a car is turning right at an intersection. I am in a Cleveland bicycle advocacy group. We are concerned with the distance the driver keeps from a cyclist on the side of the road. We also want more cycling lanes. The progressive voice CNBC spoke to, Jason Slaughter, has a Youtube channel called Not Just Bikes. One of his videos, talks about the pathetic state of some American ‘stroads’ (a road/ street). CNBC mentioned batteries on fire, so I wanted to comment again on solid-state batteries. The technology is not quite there for car-sized implementation, but it is very close to e-bikes. The Taiwan company, Gogogro, have come out with these batteries for e-bikes (still under some development).Side note: my brother pointed to a large room for innovation with e-bike programming. You could program the motor to assist the cyclist according to age, ability, and riding style. One thing that e-bikes have going for them is beautifully little energy consumption. You could build a lot of e-bikes with the energy it takes to build an electric vehicle. And the carbon used to travel one mile by e-bike is 5g, by bus is 100g, and by car is 240g. In an ideal world, we would have more bicycle infrastructure, and there would be some envelope surrounding cyclists in case of a crash.