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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Sep 18

Electric bikes are the most energy efficient electric vehicle on the planet, capable of travelling up to 40 times further per kilowatt hour than a typical electric car.

That's means with 1kWh an electric bike can travel the equivalent distance from London to Nottingham.

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Sep 16

🌡️ It's over for black painted vehicles.

Why we need to design vehicles for hotter cities and prevent exacerbating urban heat islands.

www.toyotaconnected.eu/design/insig...

Designing Vehicles to Reduce Urban Warming in Cities

Vehicles can be any colour the customer wants, as long as it’s white.

www.toyotaconnected.eu

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Aug 29

All trips in London up to 30 minutes are more than twice as a fast as on a bike than motor vehicle and goes some way to explain the growth in micromobility across London.

On a regular bike - it’s possible to travel 10km in 30 minutes. Whilst 10km isn’t far, 74% of all car trips are less than 10km.

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Aug 26

3/ In fact, 10 years ago I was using a car for this very job! Fast-forward to today and I now use an E-Cargo bike for 95% of my shopping trips including the supermarket and have done since 2020.

This is what carbon reduction and fun looks like. Buy an electric cargo bike today!

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Aug 26

2/ ...what is extraordinary is that in the UK, most trips to the supermarket are made by car.

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Aug 26

1/ There's nothing out of the ordinary about the weekly shop....

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'd imagine this is compounded in an SUV as they have terrible low-level visibility.

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jul 24

I will definitely do this next time! Thanks!

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jul 24

Apologies for confusing some people with mixed units - this is a result of simultaneously having to communicate with EU, North America and Japanese teams on a regular basis so I generally need "All the units" 🤣 Will definitely use 1m2 next time!

Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jul 23

1 square mile would definitely make a lot of bread! This is referring to just 1 square metre (1m²).

That data point was derived from @mikebernerslee.bsky.social "There's No Planet B"

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jul 23

Over the course of a year, 1 SQM of solar panels can generate enough energy to power an E-Bike for 45,000+ miles (73,000+ km).

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jun 18

Where are the shared cargo bikes in London when you need them?

Would save me 20mins right now and a lot of heavy bag carrying 🏋🏾‍♀️

Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Apr 30

Glorious day for a quick lunchtime haul - transporting a baby and 120 litres of bark mulch back from Croxted Road Garden Centre (3.6 miles round trip - equivalent to 54% of all car trips).

🚤 Faster than a car.
💸 Cheaper than a car.
🌍 Better than a car.

E-Cargo bike carrying a baby and 120 litres of bark mulch

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Apr 25

Turns out it is possible to transport an old bench to the recycling centre without a car. Also faster and less messy 💪🏼

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Apr 24

Celebrating 🌍 Earth Week 2025 🌍 with 2024 being my 2nd lowest annual mobility carbon emissions since 2002 (a student!), ending up at ~272kg CO2e.

⭐ Use micromobility for as many trips as you can (bikes, E-Bikes, E-Cargo bikes)
⭐ Use electric cars
⭐ Reduce flying
⭐ Eliminate 1 occupant car journeys

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Mar 17

This is in my current backlog

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Feb 25

Given that you can fit around 18 to 20 Lime bikes into the same space occupied by a motor vehicle and Lime reported 4.5 trips per vehicle per day back in 2020 - that's 90 trips being enabled versus 0 to 4 for the motor vehicle.

Also enabling mobility at a much lower cost for hard-working people.

Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Feb 16

Exeter Services now has 68 high speed chargers 🤯

Should help a lot of people decarbonise their holidays to this neck of the woods 💪🏾

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Feb 8

Hi Mark - that exact resource appears to be down now - it was addresspollution.org. Plenty of others though like www.iqair.com/gb/uk/englan...

Still 3.2 times above WHO limits.

Windsor Air Quality Index (AQI) and United Kingdom Air Pollution | IQAir

Windsor Air Quality Index (AQI) is now Moderate. Get real-time, historical and forecast PM2.5 and weather data. Read the air pollution in Windsor, United Kingdom with AirVisual.

www.iqair.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Feb 3

The 21st century version of burning books ....

- Trump orders US Dept of Agriculture to take down websites referencing climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders

www.theguardian.com

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jan 29

We can also use geo-data and other tech used by autonomous vehicles to limit vehicles to the actual speed limit on every road.

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jan 28

In 2019 I conducted some research in Hackney and Southwark asking residents what they'd most like to transport on cargo bikes.

After children (72% of participants) and shopping (25%) - it was pets (4%).

Here is a dog in a cargo bike wearing a Christmas jumper (Jan `25)

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Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jan 21

"While China pollutes with impunity" - except that China reduced their YOY emissions by 0.5% vs USA who increased them by 1.3% largely down to surface transport. 🙈 🤦🏾‍♂️

Data from carbonmonitor.org/variation

Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jan 21

How many Lime bikes can you fit in 1.5 car parking spaces?

At least 28.

Karim Dia Toubajie @karimtoubajie.bsky.social · Jan 18

Great to see articles like this from
@autocarofficial.bsky.social on why electric car manufacturers need to *obsess* over energy efficiency metrics.

Ultimately this means shifting away from autobesity and inefficient SUV form-factors 👏🏾

www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/ele...

Inside the race to 5.0mpkWh: the secrets to long-range EVs | Autocar

Manufacturers are honing every detail to close in on a transformative efficiency goal

www.autocar.co.uk

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