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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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Definitely depends on how you use it. For me it is definitely worth it, since I hated dumping a lot of money into car repairs and I now live within 7km of all the shops I'll ever need. I got rid of my car there and then though, so it really replaces my car. Plus I now got a foldable second ebike that don't cost anything to take with you on a train.
Most of the stores I frequent are within a 5 km circle from me, and the more esoteric ones within 10 km. So while I don't need the car at all for my regular shopping, it's still a fixture in my life due to friends and family that live some 30 km away, with no hope of decent, orbital public transport around the metropolitan area.
So the best I can do for now is to be car-lite, reserving the car for those longer trips. This adds some 2000 miles [3200 km] per year, which also helps keep my running and maintenance costs down. Although I've had my eye on taking a Class 3 ebike and pressing it into service as my long distance machine. This could also potentially be useful for inter-city trips by rail, as Amtrak has a commuter rail service here to the next metropolitan area, and can accommodate bicycles free of charge.
But basically, as a single person, I presently don't have the need to move a bunch of stuff when I go biking, but rather want to solve the problem of getting just myself somewhere farther and with reasonable speed, to backfill the non-existent public transport in specific directions. Still, these cargo bikes are cool and maybe one day I'll see one in the wild here.