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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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An analysis from Upway found that an e-bike is 68 times cheaper than driving a car.

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[โ€“] lgsp@feddit.it 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you can use an ebike, you can use a bike.

No, I dont think so. Examples:

  • hilly environment
  • more than 10 km commute
  • hauling children/heavy stuff

In those cases an while can make things so much easier that you decide not to use the car.

If you have a 5 km commute without hills, then I agree that an evoke doesn't make any difference (excluding the cost!)

An electric motorcycle needs insurance (in Europe at least), yearly tax, it's heavier and usually has no cargo space, can't use bike lanes, heavy helmet is mandatory

[โ€“] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup. Showing up sweaty on an 85 degree humid morning is not an option.

Then again, my battery crapped out halfway up a hill on my way in a month ago. A 60 lb emtb is much much sweatier to pedal.