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"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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I rode the world’s first fully electric adventure motorcycle – and it’s the future aside from one big drawback (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The drawback is the slow charging speed.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Very specifically:

Whichever [charging speed] option you choose, riding big miles will still require most owners to hang around for 45 minutes to an hour in order to brim a battery from most public fast charging outlets, which will feel too long for many, especially considering the highway range is only around 100 miles. That’s a stop every hour or so during those longer adventures.

Ride an hour and a half towards a fast charger, sit around for an hour. Ride an hour and a half towards a fast charger, sit around for an hour.

Yeah, no.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Good to take breaks when going long distances, it's a good opportunity for business to pop up also. Make it the journey. Not the destination. Maybe if the charging is able to be dropped to 30 mins would be a better time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'd much rather do three hundred miles (like four and a half hours), fuel and break for twenty minutes, hit the road again. #TourerLife

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's easy to charge less than your entire battery. Don't run it empty and/or don't charge it full. The top part of the capacity is going to be slow to charge anyway.

But an hour's ride on one charge sounds like a very small battery, so it's weird that the recharge would take that long.

[–] fuzzzerd 2 points 4 months ago

That's good in theory, but every hour across vast swaths of the US would be pretty boring. As it is most refuel stops are not places you wanna hangout at longer than you need to. That might shift slightly with more EVs requiring charges more often, but stopping every hour, for an hour to charge, isn't gonna fly for most folks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Apparently the range is another drawback, especially combined with the charging time.