{"id":827449,"date":"2026-07-26T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827449\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:11:15","slug":"study-e-bikes-can-save-13600-per-year-over-cars-cycling-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827449\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: E-Bikes Can Save $13600 per year over Cars &#8211; Cycling West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles Pekow \u2014 If you commute to work, you\u2019d save $13,600 a year if you do it by e-bike instead of car. At least if you live in Los Angeles, a study calculates. \u201cLA commuters spend roughly $15,100 per year driving vs $1,500 commuting by e-bike,\u201d says the study done by LA writer and Cycling West contributor Peter Flax.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Car vs E-Bike Commuting Costs in Los Angeles: A Comparative Analysis of Car Ownership and E-bike Commuting says \u201cParking alone, at roughly $3,314 per year, can exceed the full annual cost of e-bike commuting in some scenarios and substantially exceeds the annual charging cost many times over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingwest.com\/commuting\/e-bikes-cut-demand-for-oil-better-than-electric-cars\/attachment\/img_8950\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35754 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_8950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\"  \/><\/a>An ebike rider in the Jordan River Parkway Trail. Photo by Dave Iltis<\/p>\n<p>The cost of charging an e-bike for a year would amount to less than a single tank of gas, it says \u2013 and it was written before the current surge in gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Visited 4 times, 4 visits today)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Charles Pekow \u2014 If you commute to work, you\u2019d save $13,600 a year if you do it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-827449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}