“Is that difficult?” – Cycling, training, and riding cargo bikes for a living
Read the full article by James Holloway here. Not a lot of people appreciate that cycling is a much more social experience than using any other type of vehicle. You are very much outdoors, in the moment, and able to see better and hear better than...
Disrupting urban logistics – the Pedal Me approach
Making the economics of cargo bike logistics work This article focuses on the economics of cargo bike logistics. We give an overview of the disruptive approach taken by Pedal Me for operating large scale urban logistics and lay out its advantages and strong potential as the...
How sustainable is the Pedal Me fleet? A comparison vs electric and conventional vans
Read Dan Nowak's article in full here. Switching to electric vehicles has been painted as the picture of the green future of urban mobility by many. While this is progress, and there is certainly a place for electric vans, they take a huge amount of resources...
Why Cargo bikes? An empirical analysis of the Pedal Me fleet
Cargo bikes are often faced with misconceptions about their potential and use for large scale logistics. In this post, we present the case of Pedal Me in London to demonstrate their efficiency in dense urban areas and emphasise their competitive advantage over cars and smaller...
Pedal Me x Lambeth Council during the Covid-19 lockdown: The logistics of delivering 10,000 care packages using e-cargo bikes
Through a collaboration with Lambeth Council, Pedal Me demonstrated that e-cargo bikes offer a clear alternative to vans for large scale logistics operations. In late March 2020, as the U.K. entered lockdown to urgently flatten the exponential rise in Covid-19 cases, Lambeth Council decided to partner...