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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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Both. Heavy, needlessly complex, trying to solve a problem no one had, expensive. They had an EV bike that also sold poorly.

This is more about compliance for Japanese grants than sales.

30 years from now, people will buy them for YouTube channels but Kawasaki had to clear these below cost.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

So they did have a practical reason for doing it, it just wasn't to make a great bike.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Sometimes life isn't about efficiency.