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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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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Are there any established open standards for ebike batteries? I always assumed pretty much everything in commercial bikes was proprietary and once the maker stops providing them your only remaining option would be to have the battery rebuilt once it's toast.

If there are quality repair focused companies out there, I'd like my next e-bike to be from them for sure.

[–] Nooodel@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems Yamaha have a semi open standard, with some of the companies that integrate their tech building their own batteries.

I ride a seven year old Bosch CX, the internet says that any battery that fits the mount works, the supplier says it needs to have the same ID or it won't.

There was an article around a few months back about a startup that builds replacement focused bike batteries. Part of the article was how much of a pain it was to reverse engineer the Bosch battery communication but they claimed they did it and that other brands were far easier. Couldn't find it anymore unfortunately.

[–] philodendron 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Nooodel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nice, that's the one. Anyone got experience with it?