Asteroid Impact

Asteroid Impact
Public right of ways (bridleways and byways) are often surrounded by hedge rows and are a natural corridor for wildlife.  Bridleways and byways need preservation as they act as natures corridors.  For Every cargo bike sold Asteroid will contribute 5% to a "Public right of way Regeneration Fund" to help with the replanting of native trees, creating more nesting environments for British birds.  This regeneration fund will also improve and extend this network.

The UK does not have the best cycle lane network like the rest of Europe, however the UK does have a multi-use network of public rights of ways throughout the UK.  Bridleways and byways are the perfect traffic free environment. Asteroid Bicycles have developed a Cargo Bike capable of riding bridleways and byways, so that we can hit our target of 1 million Cargo Bike miles in 5 years. 

How many miles? Let's maths it out...
How far can we go off-road in one Cargo Bike journey fully loaded?
1 million miles = 200k miles per year.  200k = 550 miles per day
or 
10K x 100+mile journeys = 2K x 100+mile journeys per year.  5.5x 100mile journeys a day.

Will a cargo bike go the distance?  Time for more maths yay!
800wh battery miles on a normal e-bike  are claiming 32 - 170 miles.  What about fully loaded with 100kg? E-bike range is roughly 25wh per mile.  For a 36v 22.2ah battery 800wh, this will give you, about 32 miles in turbo mode.  Add another 3x 800wh batteries and Asteroid are capable of more than 128miles fully loaded.

Choose life, choose active travel:
Asteroid could have developed an e-Motorbike or e-Scooter to offer a NetZero product. Without pedal assist, Asteroid Bikes would have needed to develop an 11kW electric cargo motorbike.  Asteroid 250W Cargo bikes has 2x 500Wh (36V 14.5Ah) batteries (60kg CO2 cost together).  Any 11kW e-bikes would have a 7,2kWh battery (432kg CO2 cost).  Like the sugar and salt labels on food, these CO2 figures are how much CO2 to manufacture the batteries only and needs to be paid off against the lifecycle of the end product. 

Both human power and speed restriction help to reduce the manufactured carbon footprint, but also carbon running costs. This also contributes to a positive impact to the local environment.  For most of us an Electric Cargo Bike offers a fun alternative to daily transporting.