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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/urbanism@slrpnk.net

I'm a country boy all my life. I can't cycle or take the metro anywhere. Walkable cities are great but they're a hundred miles away.

Everyone goes on about how they hate cars, but what else are you supposed to do?

https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/livaq-equad-unveiled-as-most-capable-electric-atv-ever/ – this article talks about something with a 108km/h and a range of 273 km. It's mad expensive unfortunately, but that is normally to do with adoption rates and scale.

(It says "claims a range of 170 miles (273 km) from its 15.4 kWh battery pack", which implies consumption of about 55 watt-hours per km travelled, though that'd be variable depending on speed and conditions)

If I had one of these, I could get to town, get to a train station, without a car. I could carry one child, which is worse than a car, but the energy consumption is a 3-4× lower than a car. If train stations had swappable batteries, that would be ideal, but I don't see that coming any time soon.

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[-] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

What is the weather like where you are? It would be brutal to have to use this on a regular basis in cold, rainy, or even very hot weather.

Even a small car would give you so much more capability and you could use it no matter the weather.

Fun toy, but doesn't seem like a car replacement

this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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