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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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It has to be said that the Infinite Machine Olto e-bike gives off Cybertruck vibes, though it’s small and kinda cute. The under-$3,500 “Class 2” contender, designed to conquer urban bike lanes at 20 mph and to be released in October, is the second product from the Queens-based Infinite Machine, following a similarly styled but […]

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

That’s a scooter with pedals.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Yup we used to call them mopeds. Nobody pedaled them either except to start them. This is an electric moped. They should nut up and call it that.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would be a pretty shit electric moped so that's probably why they aren't.

I would expect an electric moped to go much faster than 20mph.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

It says it’ll do faster when “unlocked” in off road mode. Since 20mph is the limit for bike lanes it makes sense why they did it.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 days ago

I already nutted

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