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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It's a little sad that we need to actually say this, but:
Don't be an asshole or you will be permanently banned.
Respectful debate is totally OK, criticizing a product is fine, but being verbally abusive will not be tolerated.
Focus on discussing the idea, not attacking the person.
Bosch and the writer seem to be under the impression that it is impossible to get batteries out of the raw battery compartment. People stealing proprietary ebike batteries aren't doing it to sell them to people who just so happen do own the same bike and are also missing a battery.
At least with Bosch, the batteries are standardized if not universal, so you wouldn't need to find someone with the exact same model, just someone whose bike needed a Bosch 400/500 battery, for instance.
I just hope it doesn't turn into this:
... a new digital Battery Lock function this summer that would make ~~stolen~~ batteries worthless ~~to thieves looking to make a quick buck.~~
Stolen batteries immediately short out turning them into a lithium bomb.
And when you buy a scooter from Craigslist and it blows your legs off you can bet your ass SCOTUS will protect the manufacturers of the RDM battery bombs.