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HumanForest has launched its new fleet of 800 e-bikes in London. At an event officially launching the e-bikes earlier this week, HumanForest’s founder and CEO Agustin Guilisasti was joined by Dr Alex George, the Prime Minister’s Mental Health Ambassador, and Destiny Boka Bates, co-founder of air pollution campaign Choked Up, …

An electric bike pilot scheme that has received more than £1 million of funding from the Welsh Government is already helping local residents to swap their car for a bike in communities across Wales. The electric bike loan scheme, run by Sustrans, offers a range of battery-assisted electric bikes for …

Vivacity Labs has teamed up with Cross River Partnership (CRP) to improve school street safety in Hackney as part of the Healthy Streets Everyday programme. CRP’s Healthy Streets Everyday programme is a Mayor of London Air Quality-funded project to empower boroughs, businesses and communities across London to deliver pedestrian-priority healthy …

Voi is recruiting 25 young people to its UK operations in Liverpool, Cambridge, Bristol, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Birmingham and Northampton. The new positions are being offered through the Government’s Kickstart Scheme which is helping to create new jobs for 16 to 24-year-olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of …

CityBike Global has signed an agreement with the municipality of Stockholm to implement a new city e-bike sharing service. For Stockholm, CityBike Global has chosen Vaimoo as a strategic partner for the provision of smart electric bikes. Already active in Copenhagen, Rotterdam and the UK, Vaimoo will supply over 5,100 …

More than 3,000 journeys have been made as part of an e-bike trial in Peterborough, helping to reduce the number of short car trips in the city. Since launching in January, more than a thousand riders have benefitted from the scheme, helping to improve air quality and achieving a reduction of …

Voi is celebrating its first anniversary in Northampton today as a recent survey shows two-thirds of people think e-scooters have improved travel. Since the trial began, the total number of rides have surpassed 570,000, with 930,000 miles travelled on e-scooters around the region. Voi estimates its 30,000 active riders have …

Voi is supporting the Connecting Europe Express project by extending the sustainability benefits of train travel with free rides to the train’s passengers in participating Voi cities. The train will depart Lisbon today, 2nd September, and stop in over 20 Voi cities as it makes a 20,000km journey to Paris …

VanMoof has announced a $128 million Series C minority investment in a funding round led by Hillhouse Investment, an Asia-based private equity firm. The company said it will use the funds to increase its production capabilities, continue the development of new technology, improve bike specs and reliability, and break down …

Andrew Richardson, content writer for Leisure Lakes Bikes, looks at how you can boost your bike to a new level of sustainability We already know that cycling is one of the most sustainable methods of transport out there. In fact, studies show that cycling only accounts for five grams of …