With inflation worries and the rising cost of just about everything, the Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations issued an impassioned plea for motorcycle affordability in November, 2022. In particular, FEMA general secretary Dolf Willigers spelled out FEMA’s position on keeping motorcycle taxes reasonable, as well as taking other measures to encourage motorbike ridership as a viable form of everyday transport.
Lowering our collective carbon emissions is an absolutely important and vital goal—and one that FEMA argues motorbikes should absolutely be part of. While combustion motorbikes do produce some level of emissions, the majority produce fewer emissions than combustion cars and trucks. Battery electric vehicles are part of the solution—but they’re also comparatively expensive in 2022, and both the commodity and human costs of integral elements like lithium cannot be ignored.
