It’s a lot easier to charge $5,000 or more for an e-cargo bike when you market it as a car replacement, but the RadWagon proves you can render your car mostly obsolete for the price of an e-bike ...

But a cargo bike is probably the best-case argument for electrification of any class of bicycle I've tested so far. And Trek has made some good choices when it comes to powering the Fetch+ 2.

Some of his customers have no cars, but most are looking to supplement one family car with a cargo bike, he said. “They just do not care to be in a car in the city as much as possible,” he said.

While for some, loading a child into a car can seem like the fastest, most convenient and safest option to get around, cargo-bike parents say the bikes offer the ability to avoid increasingly bad ...