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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] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For this community, the article here is very much preaching to the choir, but I'm going to give them (Electrek) the benefit of the doubt by assuming that they meant for that headline to fill a niche before a negative article does.

That is, for someone who knows absolutely zilch about ebikes, they may be inclined to do some online research. While not as unabashedly FUD-tastic as, say, the online discourse on natural gas stove tops, ebikes still attract undue flak here and there, be it tropes like ebikes catching fire in NYC -- yet never really quantified -- or e-motos claiming to be ebikes while abusing bike trails. Someone might legitimately want to find a list of ebike pitfalls, but come away learning all these neat benefits.

So if Electrek is intending to preempt FUD before it starts, they maybe this might work. But as I've commented various times in this community, I think it's a bad idea to mislead people at the onset, even if well-meaning.