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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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There's efficiency losses in order to store it, and humans don't put out a whole lot of power anyway.
Yeah. but if you're doing it anyways for exercise, might as well use the energy.
Ehh, not necessarily. Would you even recoup the energy and materials needed for such a bike? Would be a bit different if the energy was stored in something other than a battery.
You're already going to have the exercise bike if that's what you want so now we are only recouping the generator and parts. Why do you hate progress?
Because if you can't recoup the energy cost then it's just more waste. I'm just saying it's not straightforward.