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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At just under 40 lbs this seems like it would be viable to just ride if the battery died. My regular commuter/touring bike weighs almost that much with bags/accessories, not even counting water.
This style of ebike definitely is suited to utra high efficiency battery use with pedaling. Like all ebikes though, you want to manage low battery to get home with a charge left. This style also has great handling and "manhandling ease" indoors or up short flights of stairs.
I still prefer Lectric XP3 style ebike. Fat tires means powerful cheap fat motors. 4" tires mean comfort and stability through snow, and medium offroad tracks. Lower handlebars and high seat still puts you in a pedaling position. Non Lectric bikes have Cadence sensors and 9 pas levels, and are actually better for your low battery scenario. You can pedal as hard as you want/need to to minimize the amount of assist in a low PAS setting you are getting. The cargo capacity is also useful for touring or picking up bulk toilet paper on sale.
Fat tires aren't really necessary for anything but snow and sand and their motors aren't any better than any other equivalent motor.
In fact, all other things being equal, fat tires are a little slower because they have more rotational mass. ~2" tires can handle most terrain with less weight, so they're more efficient overall (but, if you are riding in sand then fat tires are absolutely the way to go).
They all/tend to have much higher torque that compensates for bad rolling/air resistance.