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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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Following a successful Indiegogo for a long-range folding ebike in January, Chinese e-mobility outfit Mihogo has returned to the platform with a lightweight commuter. The Air's carbon fiber frame is jam-packed with batteries for up to 128 miles per charge.

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

'jam packed with batteries' doesn't seem to be a very safe thing to say. May be I'm a bit biased after seeing a bunch of videos of electric cycles bursting into fire in elevators.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 points 11 hours ago

Add some spice to your life with lithium fires!

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Wow these "lightweight" bikes are 50-60 pounds. I'd be worried about hitting bumps on a carbon frame with that much weight on it. Are most ebikes carbon frame now?