Can These Self-Charging E-Bike Libraries Bring Mobility to Low-Income Communities?
- Date: 10/01/2024
Buying an e-bike is expensive. Starting last year, a local startup is providing low-cost, self-charging e-bike libraries to low-income communities…
he bike share service has been in service opened back on May 25, 2017, and allowed anyone who needed a bike to rent one at a designated station and then drop it off at a different point down the road. There are dozens of stations in Louisville and southern Indiana.
LouVelo’s general manager, Matthew Glaser, said the city pulled the plug on the program. Glaser said the city had a contract with LouVelo’s parent company, CycleHop, that ends on Oct. 25, and the city decided not to renew it.
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