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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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That's like biking from Denver to Durango ten times.

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[–] billwashere 3 points 3 days ago

So making a couple of assumptions here.

Assuming this was all Lime and that the cost per minute is 25¢ per min to just make the calculation easier…

Riding 4000 miles is about 15 miles a day. At an average speed of about 15 mph, it would take you about an hour.

Cost Breakdown • Unlocking fee: $1.00 • Per-minute rate: $0.25 • Ride cost: $0.25 * 60 minutes = $15

Total Cost Unlocking fee + Ride duration cost = $1.00 + $15.00 = $16.00/day

At 365 days that’s $5840. He could have bought like 10 scooters or maybe like 3 really good ones. Of course he would have to store them, charge them, do maintenance, etc. I mean yeah it’s expensive but this is cheaper than a car and much less hassle than owning either a car or a scooter. I guess that’s their business model.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He could have saved a lot of money by buying an e-scooter.

[–] nucleative 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes I think it's about time for him to invest in one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Kinda seems like he's making a point of doing it on rental scooters, but yeah, he could've bought a decent scooter by now.