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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bicycle riding is very efficient and effortless at 10-15 mph, if it wasn’t for those pesky stops. This is a great solution - even if it only gives back 75% of the braking energy. For urban utility, a bike really only needs to boost up to 10 mph and then I can take over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think the real killer for biking is anytime I hit a steep hill. Doesn't matter if I'm slow or fast, I lose so much energy climbing hills. And the wattage for climbing even at slow speeds can be high enough that smaller motors struggle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The only hills around me are bridges over rivers or highways. But for those kinds of hills a super capacitor bike may still perform well.