Accentuate - North East

11/07/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/08/cargo-bike-sales-soar-as-uk-petrol-prices-surge

Higher costs in motoring, environmental concerns and ease of movement are spurring a boom

29/03/2022

24/01/2022

Brilliant video to get you enthused about e-cargo bikes!

This video is an attempt to do a remake of the original video made by Larry vs Harry. We filmed 31 Antwerp Bullitteers in 4 days.Leave us a comment if you li...

24/01/2022

Great to see that the use of e-cargo bikes has been boosted during the Covid epidemic. The Guardian reports (Friday 20th Jan) :

Since the first lockdown, increasing numbers of companies have started delivering their products – and passengers – on electric cargo bikes. According to a new directory, there are now almost 450 independent businesses and tradespeople across the UK transforming the sight, sound and smell of our cities and towns by delivering goods to customers using nothing but electricity and pedal-power.

“Over the course of the pandemic, the rise of businesses using e-cargo bikes for deliveries has been breathtaking,” said Helena Downey, the founder of the Bought by Bike directory. “The rise is so dramatic that this could become mainstream.”

Great news for us at Accentuate and our Associate Partner in the CABIT project, Z Move ZMOVE

24/01/2022

Here at Accentuate we're cracking on with the CABIT project after the Christmas and New Year break.

First up is sorting out dates for our remaining trans-national meetings this year - we're really looking forward to hooking up with our colleagues from Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Austria again and pushing on with finalising the training programme we're writing for e-cargo bike companies across Europe.
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04/01/2022

The London Borough of Barnet has partnered up with the urban logistics firm Zedify to offer a new low-emissions delivery service for businesses in Finchley. Ahead of the ULEZ extension, which comes into force on Monday [25 October], the scheme aims to replicate Zedify’s model used in other London ...

02/09/2021

I'm very pleased to report that the module Accentuate has been writing for the CABIT e-cargo bike riders training course is now complete, in draft form. It's been a lot of hard work, but what a lot we've learnt about the wonderful world of e-cargo bikes and last mile deliveries......

We will spend the next three weeks reviewing and working on the 7 modules which will comprise the full course; it's all coming together now, which is very exciting!

16/08/2021

On a much more serious note, e-cargo bikes have been used to help out during the pandemic:

Cargo bikes heroes come to action during the corona crisis

During the COVID pandemic, the CCCB collected and shared stories of local cargo bike heroes; individuals and organisations which used two-wheeled power to not only deliver essential goods but also hope to local communities.

Among stated examples, the City of Lisbon has been using five CCCB cargo bikes to distribute food and medication, while Copenhagen has been using medical cargo bikes to distribute blood and tissue samples in order to ease the strain on the medical system.

In Vienna, the book shop Musial in Recklinghausen has been using its cargo bike to not only deliver books, but also to run daily errands for their neighbours. In Hamburg, the non-profit association StrassenBLUES e.V. delivered soup and a corona information magazine to homeless people via the cargo bike startup recycleheros.

Finally, the company Urban Arrow has been working with its network in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and the UK to provide organisations, services and medical customers with free of charge demo-bikes for the delivery of vital products.

Read more about it on the UCI website https://www.uci.org/news/2020/

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26/07/2021

Great to see a double page article all about the expansion of e-cargo bikes in The Guardian on Friday!

Read all about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/24/cycling-brands-gear-up-for-rapid-growth-in-uk-cargo-bike-market

20/07/2021

Take a look at the cute pictures of pets being transported by e-cargo bike by Sies Petcare in London.

https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/case-study/sies-petcare

Such a great idea!! 🐶🐶🐶

Sies Petcare applied for an ecargo bike grant to make the switch to delivering sustainable transport in animal care using an ecargo bike.

28/06/2021

The more we research e-cargo bikes for the CABIT training course, the more amazing information we uncover!

I was news to me that Sainsburys has been using e-cargo bikes for deliveries in South London,:

A fleet of five bikes has begun delivering orders in south London ...dispatching up to 100 online orders per day – and Sainsbury’s will consider rolling the initiative out to busy cities across the UK if it proves successful.

Read more about it on I news : https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/sainsburys-has-begun-delivering-online-orders-by-bike-to-beat-city-traffic-146337

Sainsbury’s has launched the UK’s first grocery delivery service by electric cargo bike. The supermarket is examining whether delivering groceries by bike could be a more efficient way of getting groceries to customers living in busy cities.

09/06/2021

Interesting piece in Air Quality News last month about Birmingham's Clean air Zone :
https://airqualitynews.com/2021/05/28/birmingham-caz-could-lead-to-a-sea-change-in-attitudes/
Clearly e-cargo bikes will be an important part of this strategy, and those e-bike riders need quality initial training in all aspects of e-bike delivery services!

Next week, Birmingham City Council will implement the first Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in the UK to include private vehicles. This follows the city of Bath’s CAZ which came into effect on March 16.

27/05/2021

Great to report that the latest Accentuate project, CABIT (e-CArgo Bike riders Initial Training is gathering momentum. We have now held several meetings and the project is well under way!

Partners are in the process of gathering detailed information from e-cargo bike companies about the kind of things they would like to see covered in the training.

Also in preparation and coming soon is the new and exciting CABIT website.

In the meantime, you can find more detailed information about this, and our other projects, on our website http://accentuate.uk.com

05/05/2021

Interesting to see this article about e-cargobikes on airqualitynews.com today :

https://airqualitynews.com/2021/05/04/are-electric-cargo-bikes-a-viable-alternative-to-last-mile-delivery/

It makes a very compelling argument for e-cargo bikes!

We are constantly facing an acceleration of new devices, solutions, services, and products – from Uber, Amazon and Netflix. However,...

05/05/2021

The CABIT project is progressing well.🙂We have great European partners and are working together to create an initial training programme for e-cargo bike riders.

We're busy researching what needs to go into that training - if you have ideas about what should be included, either as a bike rider yourself, or as a company which uses e-cargo bikes for deliveries, please get in touch!

24/03/2021

Big day today - we’re ‘hosting’ the virtual Kick-Off Meeting for our new Erasmus + KA202 Partnership Project CABIT - 7 partners from Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain.

Lots of discussion and planning of the work today, and again tomorrow, with the aim of producing a package of initial training for e-cargo bike riders by December 2022. A good start 😁👍🇪🇺