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Car is one of the biggest money spenders in personal finance. Car sharing cars like Evo and Modo are indeed cheap if you use it only occasionally, but even if you are slightly not careful in your usage, you will spend lots of money. If you drive regularly, getting your own car might be a better deal even if you don’t drive that much.

A good e-bike costs at least $2000 CAD, and the whole-trip average speed is only around 17-18kmh, meaning that it is definitely not a car replacement. However, it has several advantages:
-Ultra pleasurable almost like a motorcycle, yet having a much lower accident rate.
-Encourages exercise, since it makes cycling easier, more pleasurable, and applicable for more trips.
-Due to not requiring high physical effort and being a bit faster than regular bike, e-bikes can be combined with subway and car share cars that can satisfy a very large portion of your trips, potentially saving lots of money on driving.

If you take this approach, make sure to select an e-bike with dimensions that enable it to be taken on subway and car share cars. For example, Vancouver Skytrain only permit bikes 1.85 meters or shorter, and scooter style e bikes are not allowed.

Don’t rely on e-bikes or car share cars to save a huge amount of money with very little effort, but combining car share, subway, and e-bike with some planning can indeed save you some money.

Rize Bikes, Rad Power Bikes, and Volt Bikes have good price to functionality ratio.

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