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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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The bike averaged 12 mph while cruising around inner-city London. which helped it breaking a Guinness World Record

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That rear wheel scream "proprietary" so loud.

It also has a claimed riding range of 217 miles (350 km).

Can company really claim something that would never happen? 350km is riding in 20kmph speed, no one get a motorcycle to ride with a speed of bicycle all the time.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even worse, they achieved 310km at 20km/h. Maybe to achieve 350 km you have to push for a fraction of the trip...?

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's 7% left after the trip, maybe that 7% will do for another 40km? Idk. Really a head scratcher on how the company coming up with the number.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

7% of 350 is 24.5, so that doesn't track either...

I don't know how they can claim 350 km and say they've beaten a world record at 310 with a straight face. If their range claims weren't straight up false, surely they would just run a full tank and get 350, or even 360 in unreal conditions like this.