With the average commute to work in the US being 16 mi one way, The average speed of riding a bicycle in the city being 15 mph, that makes the average commute to work just over an hour long (over 2x the 27 minutes it takes in a car). If you work in a job that requires you to be presentable, then you need to add another 15 minutes to take a quick shower and change (if your workplace even has such facilities).
Obviously, this changes with e-bikes, but there’s not really a practical difference between most modern e-bikes and an electric moped.
That’s 16 miles number seemed odd to me so I did a little bit of digging and it looks like based on the 2 minutes of reading I did that number might be heavily skewed by residents of rural communities and super-commuters. Looks like people in urban areas have a shorter distance to commute which reduces the delta between car and bicycle travel time
This map seems to show that rural/urban devide pretty clearly and supports that, with many larger cities falling into that smallest <30 miles average daily travel category
With the average commute to work in the US being 16 mi one way, The average speed of riding a bicycle in the city being 15 mph, that makes the average commute to work just over an hour long (over 2x the 27 minutes it takes in a car). If you work in a job that requires you to be presentable, then you need to add another 15 minutes to take a quick shower and change (if your workplace even has such facilities).
Obviously, this changes with e-bikes, but there’s not really a practical difference between most modern e-bikes and an electric moped.
That’s 16 miles number seemed odd to me so I did a little bit of digging and it looks like based on the 2 minutes of reading I did that number might be heavily skewed by residents of rural communities and super-commuters. Looks like people in urban areas have a shorter distance to commute which reduces the delta between car and bicycle travel time
This map seems to show that rural/urban devide pretty clearly and supports that, with many larger cities falling into that smallest <30 miles average daily travel category