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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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I see a legal issue. Is it still an electric assist bike or full electric ...4-wheeler?
Yeah, maybe someone can explain to me how this isn’t a vehicle at this point. Sure, it’s smaller, but having a 1000 pound vehicle using bike paths and multi-use paths seems dangerous. This feels like someone trying to pass off a small car as a bike in order to circumvent safety standards more than being a real form of micro mobility.
Yeah, I am worried about how well the brakes will work on that when fully loaded, those are some skinny tires...
Getting closer to 1,500 if you include the cargo, rider, and bike
That’s addressed in the article. Pretty absurd design though, surely a chain is more efficient.
it's electric. it mentions in the article that it's not directly powered by legs at all (directly anyway)
it has a pair of ~150w rear hub motors, class 2 too speed of 15mph and a range of 35-45 miles.
pretty neat overall considering it's load capacity.