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The cycle rickshaw, which is a variant of a cargo bike is quite common in Asia. The price for a new one ranges from $100-500. Meanwhile, a bike with elongated rear rack, e.g., a longtail cargo bike (barely counts as cargo bike) can cost $1,000 in the West, and that is the entry level "cargo bike." A front load cargo bike costs $2500 and upwards. An Urban Arrow (tm) cargo bike can cost a whopping $6-7k.
Yuba is an american company and their frontload cargo bike still costs $6k upwards. I guess one of the problem is that cargo bike is bulky and unwieldy, unlike regular bikes. So if the cargo bikes are not assembled here, but assembled elsewhere and shipped in a container whole, then it takes a ton of space and shipping cost. And these days, the demand for cargo bike doesn't quite justify having assembly line in the US. Damn, where is Trumpo tariffs when you need it, make American cargo bikes great again, put 500% tariffs on cargo bikes assembled elsewhere and pay people a living wage to assemble cargo bikes here.
In the west, any new object that isn't corn syrup based costs more than it should because of middlemen and FIRE rentseeking. Further, in the west cargo bikes are marketed as a luxury/weekend productivity enhancer, not as something that is a poverty necessity.
Also, the US had literally 40x GDP per capita compared to India, and still 20% lower gas price. Carbrains don't realize how much of a state subsidized welfare queens they are.
Never heard of them, but glad it exists. They're competing against Dutch wages and imports so they should be able to do pretty well. Doesn't look as comfortable as my Urban Arrow, and more of a general cargo bike than the family specific one from UA.
I gave them a deeper look and it's really competitive with Urban Arrow, imo. The motor and brake setup is equivalent to the 8k Urban Arrow. the UA comes with two built in seats to Yuba's 0, but its only another $350 to get 3 seats where UA needs another $250 to get to 3. And it has a built-in long tail rear rack. It's also more suitable for actual cargo. I'd probably recommend this first over the UA to people with all that in mind.