00:02What if your second car wasn't a car at all?
00:06It does the job of a second car. It carries up to 200 kilos.
00:09It has about a 100 kilometre range on a single charge.
00:13So everything I had to do in a car I can do on this thing.
00:17For Robert Knight, the cargo bike was perfect for school drop-offs, the daily commute
00:21and has become so much more than just transport.
00:24You park at places and people go, wow, check that out, that's awesome.
00:28I'm like, yeah, let me tell you about it.
00:30He crunched the numbers comparing five years of running a car and a bike,
00:35including rego and insurance.
00:36And with uncertainty over fuel prices, he says the change makes sense.
00:41It was a $16,000 a year cost to run the Tiguan
00:44and it was $1,200 cost per year to run the bike.
00:49And that's including the electricity, which is like 20 cents.
00:53It's no wonder bike shops are selling and servicing more of them.
00:56They can't be without it. They just drop it off while they're at work.
01:00We're seeing a lot of people more and more come in with cargo bikes.
01:03There are a lot of people riding those bikes and getting rid of one car in their house
01:09that probably wouldn't have done that with any other kind of bike.
01:12From September this year, the ACT Government are adding electric cargo bikes
01:16to the sustainable household scheme.
01:18Advocates say the greater the uptake, the more people will see it as a viable alternative.
01:23I'm not necessarily asking people to get out of their cars,
01:26but I'm really asking that we give people a choice to get out of their cars.
01:29It's awesome.
01:30And wherever you go, you get Rockstar Parking for free.
01:34And, you know, it doesn't get much better.
01:36Ditching the car for the e-cargo.
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