micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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Pedaling an EV would do almost nothing, right? You'd be contributing 100W to a motor that uses 10,000W. An hour of pedaling would produce 100Wh. That's a tiny amount, like a decent sized power bank. The article says the onboard battery is 22,000Wh.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-LegOd8Jxo
Aging Wheels bought Trike, he talks about the pedals
This seems extremely low for even an EV car at under 8km/kwh. Ebikes can often do 100km/kwh at 32kmh speed. Aptera design can do 16km/kwh with double the battery (and weight of battery). Citroen Ami would be a heavier vehicle, cheaper for being much simpler, and gets 14km/kwh with 1/4 of the battery (but 45kmh top speed). Very surprising their range is that low, and no way it should be.
Covered bikes add a lot of weight and expense, as does tilting. Covered bikes increase drag as well, and reduce range. Most designs will rattle if not "over weighted". Still a roof would allow better weather resistance to outdoor parking. Could hold solar
I still like a pedal system for both speed control and maintaining low speed power contributions with exercise. 70lbs and 30kmh is a limit to where useful contribution can be made, and a winner in this category is going to be something much lighter meant for bike speeds instead of car/motorcycle speeds.
I suspect the pedals only really exist to allow you to use bike lanes.
Only 100w sustained for an hour would be pretty embarrassing for an adult, but even with a trained athlete it would be a drop in a bucket at 120km/h
It seems to me that the pedals are the only throttle control via pedal pressure.