{"id":932248,"date":"2026-10-14T03:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:42:19","slug":"is-this-the-worlds-most-sustainable-e-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932248\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the world’s most sustainable e-bike?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a quite unique patented frame design, construction and environmentally-friendly production credentials to go with, Novbyx is joining the limited ranks of those laying claim to the production of a sustainable e-bike. <\/p>\n

First, the numbers behind the urban e-bike\u2019s construction.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll not have missed the unique double tube, asymmetric frame design which is cold bent to its shape and weld-free. This construction process bypasses traditional welded frame conventions and with it is claiming to drop CO2e from an average of 84.2kg to just 0.58kg \u2013 a 99.3% decline in emissions.<\/p>\n

By the calculations of Novbyx<\/a>, the total pre-consumer footprint versus a conventional electric bike has a 23.9% carbon saving at 146.8kg to an average of 192.9kg. <\/p>\n

Novbyx is even stacking some sustainable shipping credentials on top of it\u2019s e-bike production, stating that it believes its method of shipping two flat-pack courier boxes could drop CO2e emissions by 85.8%, from 44.3 kg CO2e to 6.3kg. This is in part down to the bulk of fully-assembled bike boxes and 150kg pallet minimums required in logistics.<\/p>\n

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Set to launch very soon as a Kickstarter project<\/a>, the target weight for the elliptical aluminium frame, it\u2019s seat mount and fork is as little as 3kg for a small size. Importantly for a bike where the seat tube is absent, Novbyx claim to have passed ISO fatigue testing, structural load path verification and road durability trials. <\/p>\n

Novbyx says that without conventional tube production there is no heat distortion, while waste material is vastly reduced.<\/p>\n

Backers to the Kickstarter may be able to access this sustainable e-bike in its first batch form, limited to 77 units, for around $1,999, each unit being engraved with its position in the production.<\/p>\n

It appears from the prototype imagery that a Zehus hub will be leaned upon for the drive system and battery, with both found inside the expanded rear hub shell.<\/p>\n

The Novbyx project is the result of a collaboration between Tadeusz Lacny, an automotive engineer and Filip Lacny, whose Masters in Social Impact and Sustainability has helped guide the e-bike project. Lacny Engineering GmbH is behind the development.<\/p>\n

Further reading: Find out how choosing a bike and in particular an electric bike can sharply drop your transport emissions. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a quite unique patented frame design, construction and environmentally-friendly production credentials to go with, Novbyx is joining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,4935],"class_list":["post-932248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932248","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=932248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}