 So thank you. Okay. We'll move on to item 26. Yes commissioners Temp 26 is an informational item and Mr. Jonathan Weiner from Bosch will talk about electric bicycles as an innovative method to increase options available for active transportation e-bikes Open bicycle riding to many groups of people that may not have been able to ride a bike before and provide additional options For others to reduce the reliance on automobiles with that we'll turn it over Jonathan Thank you very much Garth Good afternoon commissioners. Thank you very much for this opportunity. My name is Jonathan Weiner And I'm here today to talk to you about how a very simple but powerful Transportation innovation the electric bicycle is on the brink of a boom really in California And Garth are you controlling the slides? Okay, great Before I begin I'd like to just give you a quick introduction to myself. I come here today to you wearing three hats one hat I'm from Bosch these are our products were a supplier in the e-bike industry and We're based in Irvine, California headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany That's one hat the second hat I come as a researcher of e-bikes and this picture that you see on the left. That was one of the first e-bikes I ever saw back in 2006 when I started my doctoral research under the guidance of one of your colleagues actually Dr. Dan Sperling from ITS Davis and Third third hat that I wear is the e-bike commuter So the picture on the right you see that's my rig and when I'm not commuting to and from work Sometimes I carry precious cargo And So E-bikes they've come a long way since 2006 Two of the biggest innovations in e-bikes. I bring to you today to see This lithium-ion battery is way cheaper lighter and lasts longer than they did back in 2006 And the second innovation is pedal assist e-bike technology This is what you see in between the pedals And this is what makes e-bikes feel like a regular bicycle and by the way they make us the riders Feel like we're 19 again, which is a nice feeling Some e-bikes also have a throttle But most e-bikes out there on the streets today are pedaled and thus they preserve the healthy human element of cycling and All the societal benefits that cycling brings so Why are e-bikes important? One main reason is they're getting more people out on two wheels and One example that illustrates this point perfectly. It's from a study that was done in the UK It was a study done in the UK by a steer and it found that Okay, we all know traditional bike share. It's plagued by one key problem really It's it's the main users are young fit men and this study looked at the this UK bike share system Once it converted from traditional bikes to electric bikes. It actually attracted significantly more women So A little bit more on How people use e-bikes and I want to highlight the work from two researchers John MacArthur from Portland State University and Chris cherry from University of Tennessee They've been exploring why people e-bike and last year they surveyed 2,000 e-bike owners and it reveals some really important interesting findings first They found that people use e-bikes for two main reasons and you'll see it on this slide They use it as a transportation tool to commute and they also use it to exercise and recreate They also found that e-bike owners actually ride more often after converting to an e-bike And you see that in the green bars to the right side compared to the orange bars on the left side We at Bosch we conducted our own Survey as well and we found that typically e-bike riders ride about three times more than bicyclists and the riding longer distances Most importantly, I think for California and and mobility and To the benefit of many of our clogged streets that we travel on to get here John and Chris found that e-bike trips seem to be replacing car trips most often roughly 40% of the trips which you'll see in this chart. So what would you have used if you didn't have your e-bike? So what is this? I Also wanted to paint a picture. Okay, we know how people use e-bikes now I wanted to give you a sense of what the e-bike market looks like today and this just shows you that Sales in the US small 200,000 pieces per year As a point of comparison Europe is years ahead of us And they boast nearly 10 times as many sales and this is in part due to them having much better bicycling infrastructure in their cities but We're on a we're on a Path as well, but we're sort of in the initiation phases of market growth So not surprisingly. Okay, that's the e-bike market in the US overall. Let's narrow in on California not surprisingly as you would expect California again is at the epicenter of a new transportation revolution the e-bikes and We find that e California is the epicenter of the e-bike market in terms of users But it's also the epicenter of the e-bike industry And you'll see some names of some of the companies and where they're located. They're mainly e-bike manufacturers or e-bike suppliers Some of you if you travel the Sacramento quite a bit. You may have seen the jump e-bike share. That's that's really popular now Exactly and they're they're expanding Yeah, quite rapidly San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento and more So in summary Why are e-bikes important to California? I'd like to quote John Burke who is the CEO of Trek Bicycles And he often says and I love this analogy Bicycles whether they're electric or acoustic Bicycles are a cheap date to solve society's three biggest problems Obesity climate change and traffic congestion Right and and by the way by the way they may may also boost By the way, they may also boost California's economy as well The commission so in in short I'd like to thank you for your time and attention to this topic And I would also like to thank the California bike coalition and Portland State University and University of Tennessee for their help on this presentation, thank you and Appreciate your questions Question. Yes. I'll go. Commissioner. Go many follow by commissioner done Thank you very much for the presentation. I I think you guys have come a long way. I think these things are super My question is is Where does an e-bike? Fit in and what I mean by that is, you know in San Francisco where I live we have scooters scoot that are running around that are electric And and we also have jump. Yeah, the electric bikes When you're riding a scooter you have to wear a helmet, you know, there's safety requirements They're treated like a car. They drive in the car lanes, etc An electric bike is not a regular bicycle I ride a regular Bicycle around the city and we have bike lanes, etc Where does the electric bike? Is it helmet required? Is it going to be required? Do they get to ride in the lanes of travel or to do? I'm kind of confused as to where the electric bike is going to fit into all this So three years ago, California passed a law about e-bikes and we call it the three-class e-bike law Class one and two e-bikes, which this this system pedal assist is class one 20 miles per hour top speed pedal assist it has all the rights and responsibilities of regular bicycles Class two 20 miles per hour top speed throttle Same same deal. It has all the rights to use the bicycle infrastructure That's out there today class three goes 28 miles per hour top speed pedal assist and that's limited It can't use the same It can really only use Street bike lanes. It can't use class one bike paths where you might find many pedestrians or cyclists. So E-bikes are divided into three types one type that goes higher speed cannot use all the same bike infrastructure And you're mandated to wear a helmet as well. I Guess I'm wondering how you're gonna police that Right now it's Not policed very It hasn't become Yeah, it's a new technology exactly and that and we got a you're gonna have to work out the bug, but exactly I think until there is a mmm As as I've seen It's not quite policed like if there's a class three bike on a bike path We're not talking about the little bird scooters or the line things that are all over the streets, you know, it is different. I get it Yeah Commissioner down. Are we finished? I'm sorry Commissioner done. Thank you very much for your presentation. So Three to four hours to charge. That's kind of a long time. Is there technology coming where? You can speed up the charge time. What what are you guys looking at from? We We do have a fast charger that just came out in Europe It it speeds up the charge time But but keep in mind for three to four hours of charge time, which is about a quarter worth of electricity 25 cents This will take you up to a hundred miles up to but it says 20 to a hundred miles 20 if if you're on a really high level of assist Then maybe you only get 20 if you put it in eco mode where you're just kind of sipping the electricity Yeah, and putting in a lot of your own Human quad power then you could get 100 miles and it depends what kind of road you're traveling on as well Whether it's really steep or flat. Okay, that kind of security or knowing where that range is That's kind of important especially for women so that they don't feel like I got to sit and wait for someone to pick Me up because I can't I don't have it charged for three to four hours. Yeah, it's a great point Yeah, yeah, bike still works right right right you can still I'm trying to decide do I buy one of these or do I buy a Vespa, right? You know, so that's the issue Okay. Yeah worst case scenario you pedal home on your own Downhill what is the cost for this? What is it? What does it run? between a $1000 for some of the low-end all the way up to six or $7,000 like a motorcycle Yeah, some of them have really state-of-the-art high-end technology Costs cost of a motorcycle and I brought three models out. They're at the entrance So you can kind of see the range from three thousand to about five thousand dollars. Thank you. You're welcome And I give incentives are there AR beer incentives for those or I Know Yeah, there are not currently incentives I know yeah Cal bike coalition is working on that and just to keep in mind Europe's way ahead of us on this UK Just started offering incentives for cargo e-bikes to carry goods or people every day is a freight day Right and France is offering France and Sweden started offering incentives recently in the markets Just taking off I thought we heard the incentives less greenhouse gas less weight and less Congestion Yeah, I put more incentives. Do you need I think we're gonna fight over who ARB had put money into it so cap and trade dollars. Let's give them some cap and trade money that Mr. Arp I yield the floor to you. Did you have a question? Oh The troops are getting wild here commissioner. Thank you. Good good presentation very interesting Thank you, and I'm glad you're a product of UC Davis. That's a great program Just one comment back to commissioner done Range anxiety I drive an electric vehicle a hybrid plug-in but One thing I do believe it but it range young society used to bug me a lot It was a source of worry I still have some hesitation about a full electric because charging is Can be a challenge even in Southern, California But the more you use an electric vehicle your range anxiety goes down You just get more familiar with the vehicle whether it's a hybrid whether it's full battery I imagine even if it's a bike and so that's one element, but it does take Familiarity, so it's kind of counterintuitive and then my I just that was just a comment, but I didn't realize they were that expensive so Can you tell me when I see all these? orange Jump bikes deployed in San Diego You know, I can walk away from my house and see five or ten of them between My house and the restaurants How much are those bikes each? What are these investments like when they come into a market? Well, it's hard for me to say about the Electric bike share bikes because they're built to last years and they're built to for somebody to throw on and So those costs are not comparable to personal Personal use e-bikes. I guess my question would be If it were the higher, you know $7,000 that's a really big investment for a company to come into a community I'm just a little wondering how what how what their business plan consists of if they're if they're putting Two or three thousand dollar bikes on every corner. Yeah, so just a point of reference In New York City lifts lifts slash motivate their e-bike share bikes are getting about 14 Trips per day and if you calculate, I don't know two to three dollars per trip They're generating a fair bit of revenue per day and they probably pay for themselves within Maybe less than a year You're welcome and by the way the e-bikes about the point about range anxiety All the e-bikes have a special computer on the handlebar where you can see your range real time and it's just like electric cars today where it knows sort of How you're riding and it'll calculate your estimated range until zero battery You're welcome. Okay. Thank you very much. We do have one public speaker on this. So Dave Snyder. Can you come forward? Thank you. My name is Dave Snyder I'm the executive director of the bicycle coalition and Jonathan is too polite to thank himself so I want to start by thanking Jonathan and Bosch for that excellent presentation and Our staffer Linda Komushian And I wanted to emphasize the importance of this presentation for you as commissioners in your role With transportation investments and I'll and I'll go back to some of yesterday's comments and and the frankly bad news That we got about the trends in transportation and how Difficult we are finding it to reduce vehicle miles traveled and therefore greenhouse gas emissions While maintaining mobility and and maintaining a strong economy one of the biggest things that we learned yesterday is the drop in transit ridership, which is a huge disappointment to a lot of us except on those Transit lines that have a high frequency and are very high quality. We're finding that people take those transit kind of the trips So that's where our dollars are gonna have to go in transit We're gonna have to invest in fewer lines at very high frequency and very high quality transit How are we gonna get people to those lines the bike? We know is a Very fantastic way to get people to those trips And we're finding that when we build the infrastructure to make it safe People do it in the Bay Area at BART stations and a couch train stations The number of people who get to those stations by bicycle is is more than 10% at a handful of stations in those two systems More than 10% because a few places have made it safe and we have to do a lot more of that you all Need to really figure out how you can invest in safe routes to transit so that people can make that trip by bike It's not just safety, it's also this cultural thing that bicycling is hard, you know, it's it's And it is a little bit hard It's hard It's not as hard as people think but it's a little bit hard And if you have kids to take to school if you have steep hills is practically impossible e-bikes change that E-bikes completely change that e-bikes are fun It's you feel like you're 19 or if you're or if you're 50 you feel like you have a stiff tailwind It's it's fantastic. So I I think that for for you all I urge you to consider that That e-bikes enable California to be like let's say Germany not Two ridiculous comparison on modern country where 10% of all trips are by bike and benefits to the health and to the Economy and to the transportation system in Germany are huge. So I If you don't think that bicycling can play that role in California I urge you to reconsider that and I especially urge you to Take a step outside and go for a spin On one of those bikes and see for yourself Thanks very much for inviting us to give this presentation Okay, can I ask Jonathan a question on your chart? That talked about what these rides were substituting for taking an automobile and you pointed out 46% but not right next to that the column said they were replacing a different bike trip or a walk or another form of Transit I think so that first column The second column that shows no the first well, yeah if you count the Head the descriptor is the first column the next column over can we pull that slide up real fast? I know we're out of time and we've got to see this facility to others shortly It was trips replaced by e-bikes as the heading of the slide Yeah, it and it refers to the trip. We asked our Chris and John asked e-bike owners the for the trip that they're thinking about What would they have taken right had they not had their e-bike and I believe the slide shows that 40% of the trips represented The alternative would have been automobile So it's a 46% it's a 40% So sorry percentage of VMT. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it's just that a lot of people naturally would have gone on a regular bike Had they not had the e-bike That that is that that is understandable What's what surprised me in that data was that as many as I think it's 46% would have taken a car Right. Okay. Okay. I just thought 40 and we're looking at declining transit ridership So I was trying to drill down and learn a little more But we're the other thing in that chart which if I may excuse me just to draw your attention to is that the average distance of That typical trip is nine miles, which was a high number to me that the the median I get the meaner. I don't know which it is Car trip that it's replacing is a nine mile trip. So we're not talking about one or two mile trips We're talking about serious transportation impact. Okay, well, we'll probably want to drill down with you and understand a little more of the information we're learning so Yes, chair Frasier just wanted to access yesterday pursuant to our co-meeting we talked about technology Taking forefront and investing it. This would be a great opportunity when we look at the investment that the airport does with the vehicles You know the incentive programs, I think up to like $35,000 This would be something that would be absolutely paramount to invest in as first and last mile is accomplished And so you look at the differential that what it does is I think this is probably a good bill idea They're going out forward and making sure the technology is embraced and that alternate Transportation is being embraced and going forward. So, you know look forward to working with you But I think that the airport this is a perfect opportunity for their incentive program Yeah, that's good. Okay, commissioner Medafer Just real briefly. I just want to say this is outstanding I mean, these are the kind of things just as chair Frasier just said I use you know when jump came to San Diego I use that thing all the time. I like the e-bike. It's easier to use the app works Everything is so good about it and you get around and the one stat. I remember hearing I don't know the exact number, but it was something like with uber Something like 40 or 50 percent of all of their rides are like two miles or less in cars So if those can be replaced with scooters and e-bikes, you're taking a two to four thousand pound vehicle off the road You're eliminating GHG. It's really a win-win for that and improves active transportation It's something that definitely the Commission should be advocating. Okay All righty. Thank you very much. She was just fascinating. We'll be out to take a look. So, okay We're gonna move to item 27 Terry, please. Okay, and to my husband who's watching today. Yes I want to e-bike for Christmas. I Think we'd all say that to our Santa Commissioners item number 27 is an informational item and Ellen Greenberg the deputy director for Caltran's office of Sustainability will be providing an update on the zero emission vehicle program Hi, I guess it's time to say good evening. Good evening commissioners. Thank you for your attention I know we're at the close of the day and it's been a very full Two days soon to be a full three days. This is an update We're going to be returning to a few of the topics that we discussed last time I spoke with you about the department's dev program, which was over