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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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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

According to the company, the reusable boxes can be used around 30 times before ultimately being recycled.

In fact, Riese & Müller plans to use these reusable plastic boxes worldwide for both its bikes and small components.

Not sure why they consider plastic to be a good material for this, wouldn't an impact to the exterior compromise the structural strength of the plastic? Vs a cardboard box which will just get dented or impaled at the location of the impact, still being able to retain the majority of its structural stength?

This smells like a green Maytag IMO. I see no reason why they could not accomplish the same reusable thing with cardboard