Sweet Commute explains electric vehicles, e-bikes, scooters and the daily commute in plain English. How far a car really goes on a charge, what a kilowatt-hour costs you, how long charging takes, and whether the sums work for your trip to work.
We show the working so you can decide for yourself. Prices and rules change from country to country, so we give metric units first, US equivalents where they help, and the formula behind every number.
Meet Cole
Cole is your plain-English guide to getting around: the host of Sweet Commute and its sister channel, The Electric Shed. He is calm, practical and suspicious of sales pitches.
Cole is AI-generated
Cole is not a real person. His face, voice and on-screen workshop are generated with AI tools, and AI helps draft the articles. Cole doesn't own a car, ride a bike or pay a power bill.
A real person runs Sweet Commute. They live with home solar and a battery system and supply the real-world data, such as power bills and energy logs. They check every article before it goes up.
If something is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it and note the correction on the article.
The old Sweet Commute
Sweet Commute started in 2019 as a commuting blog by Ian and Mark: running and cycling to work, kit tips and race reports. Cole has rewritten and updated their articles about bikes, e-bikes, scooters and getting around, and each one credits its original author. The running and race articles have been retired.
Money
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