🇳🇱 Between 2025 and 2030, fossil-fuel powered trucks + vans will be banned from 30 Dutch city centres.
💡This presents an opportunity; switch to smaller, more efficient vehicles. Example: this Fulpra e-trike carries 2 roll-containers weighing 3000L/350kg💪
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⛽️Fossil fuels subsidies cost billions, worsen the climate crisis and block a healthy future.
📝@cargobikefest is one of 150+ organisations to sign @FossielvrijNL's open letter to the Dutch cabinet telling them it's time to stop👇
https://t.co/5zFP0N6W9N
#StopFossieleSubsidies
To round off @cargobikefest's collaboration with @BYCS_org on the 'Perspectives: First & Last Mile' series of articles, I've written an editorial piece on how resilience, equity, community and cargo bikes intertwine.
Read it here ⏩ https://t.co/Dlf1UXHOOd
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🇧🇪cAIRgo bike project's 4 main lessons on converting businesses to cargo bikes - in 1 tweet:
📈The potential is enormous
🤔There are numerous motivations for switching
🚧There are also obstacles to be overcome
🧑🎓Try before you buy and training are critical
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🇧🇪 The 3-year cAIRgo bike project helps Brussels residents and businesses to switch to #cargobikes. The goal? Improved air quality + reduced congestion.
🆕 The "Cargo Bikes for Pros" report summarises the lessons learned ⏩ https://t.co/aW2CetRjXX
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🤩EXHIBITOR FOCUS🤩
Check out this byAr Volta. It's not just a premium e-bike with an eye-catching design. It also features an innovative enclosed drive-shaft, keeping maintenance to a minimum.
Test ride at @cargobikefest/@FullyChargedShw: Nov 24-26.
ℹ️https://t.co/O3UjVm6Zgf
🇬🇭🌍Fourth in the Perspectives: First & Last Mile series, in partnership with @BYCS_org, is an interview with @valerielabi - CEO of MANA Mobility.
⚡️🚲In it, Valerie explains how #cargobikes can bridge Ghana's "connectivity gap".
⏩https://t.co/Ow7SQLULkl
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2⃣0⃣2⃣3⃣🥳 What trends will shape the future of the cargo bike industry, mobility + the sharing economy in 2023 + beyond?
💡 To kick off the year, we sat down with Kees Jan Blankestijn of DOCKR to get his take.
👀 Read it here ⏩https://t.co/9zQ6ruENTZ
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🇩🇪⏩🇺🇦 From Kiel to Kyiv
🆘 The story of how a German city’s cycling community came together to help Ukrainian volunteer delivery service CargoCult.
Featuring - among others - @cargobikefest regulars @carlacargo.
Read it here ⏩ https://t.co/hOMBbOd91y
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🇫🇷🚲⚰️ This Funeral Director is now offering environmentally-conscious Parisians a better, more human-scale way to travel their #lastmile. Introducing the Corbicyclette, a hearse #cargobike.
👀⏩https://t.co/J9Riokit7J
ℹ️ https://t.co/oGHvjyE8IF
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📗☺️ We've got your weekend reading covered: the newly-released ICBF Magazine!
⏩https://t.co/5xVUdePmOQ
👀 Two must-reads:
🔎 MJ Somerville and Tom Parr on diversity in the #cargobike industry: p9-12
🇺🇸 Keith Reed's USA #cargobike travelogue: p20-21
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📰 ICBF Magazine 📰
📢 Release News 📢
We're publishing the ICBF Magazine online this Friday! Including stories from: 🇺🇦🇺🇬🇰🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱🇨🇳🇹🇼🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸🇮🇱🇫🇷🇩🇰
Here's a sneak preview of the cover, featuring Radkutsche. Sorry, you'll have to wait to see what's inside🤷
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🇳🇱 Tergooi MC Hospital has started a #cargobike home-collection service for blood samples in #Hilversum, NL.
💉🩸 The service replaces 300-400km in car trips per week and simplifies routing and parking for employees.
ℹ️👀⏩https://t.co/A63nrfyTtO [Dutch]
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💪 6000km and counting...
@NewMotionLabs are testing their latest #cargobike-specific #EnduoCargo drivechain in real-life conditions, with London-based Absolutely Couriers. It's already lasted longer than a normal chain👏 Watch this space for updates 📡📻
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We need to talk about TCO.
In the #cargobike industry, "a coherent story and vision about the Total Cost of Ownership is becoming increasingly necessary"
Featuring perspectives from @newmotionlabs and @UrbanArrowcom.
👀⏩ https://t.co/h7DR059jsy
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🗣️ “According to our estimates, a #cargobike breakdown can cost a business €600 – more if the bike needs to be recovered. Our view? This is avoidable.”
- Lucas Lobmeyer, CTO of @newmotionlabs
Want to know how? Read on... 👀⏩ https://t.co/Kciftqd7wS
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🙌 We've announced dates for #ICBF2022! And we're partnering with #WorldofeMobility to bring you the best edition of the ICBF yet, with a conference, exhibitors, side-events and a *huge* indoor test track.
📅27-28-29 Oct 2022
ℹ️👀⏩https://t.co/bzUJOOXyn2
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📢New dates for #ICBF2022!📢
📅 We're thrilled to announce that ICBF2022 will take place between 27-29 October!
📌 We're teaming up with the World of eMobility show - the event will take place close to #Amsterdam.
More details ℹ️⏩https://t.co/bzUJOOXyn2
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