micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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Interesting idea in theory, but probably less so in practice. Regenerative braking rarely makes sense on bikes. Humans and bikes just don't weigh enough to hold a lot of kinetic energy, and few bikeable hills are tall enough and steep enough to require continuous braking. Unless the grade is really intense, I'd rather just coast at a fun 30mph.
I think regen braking is fine on a bike, but it's mostly just about descent control and saving wear/tear on your disk brakes, the nominal charging done is just icing on the cake (at least with traditional batteries, maybe it's more efficient with caps?)
I think efficiency would be about the same between caps and batteries. The issue is that both are heavy. Capacitors moreso for the same capacity though this application isn't looking for a long-haul energy storage solution.