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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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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised any exist, to be honest. I thought e-bikes would charge at 500 - 1000 W.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's a bit of an insane power draw. Most draw under 300W I'm pretty sure. The capacity of the batteries isn't that big, mine is 500Wh

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago

I just checked my charger (a Bosch one that is widely used in Germany) and that one delivers 4A at 36V, so 144W.

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

Ah okay sorry, I way overestimated their size. At work we use big batteries around 5000Wh, so I guess I should have cut down my expectation more. Makes sense actually when I think about the weight of the rack mounted ones.