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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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[–] pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've seen a lot of inconsistency in charger shapes for different ebikes I've used. I wonder how they decided which charging heads to provide?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would be nice to have standardized batteries and chargers

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like a station of batteries, you plug in your dead one and take a fresh one.
I guess you would never own the battery, and would have to be subscription based.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That, or something akin to how propane cans are exchanged.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I thought about the propane angle. But propane lasts a lot longet than a battery charge, a propane tank doesnt degrade like a battery does, and a battery is more expensive than a propane tank (both construction and recycling).
So, its higher cost of entry, potentially high cost of "recertifying" (ie turning around an empty battery into a full one).
It seemed more likely that both the user and the company to get screwed over by duff batteries and surprise costs

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

They could do like propane tanks, where you just pay when you swap for a fresh one. You could also still recharge the battery you have. No subscription needed