24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville
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#2meat crayon
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#3meat crayon
lol. I was thinking that they should attach a roll cage and maybe a seat too and then a steering wheel might make sense too...
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#4> “because we think electric scooters are the most important vehicle innovation of this century.”
Perhaps.. if you've never experienced urban property theft. Which is what prevents me from buying an electric bicycle. Similarly the designers of these products seem to incorporate no anti theft technology into any of their products.
A scooter that goes blisteringly fast? Hardly an innovation on it's own.
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#5> the company’s engineers left Formula 1 to work on scooters “because we think electric scooters are the most important vehicle innovation of this century.”
Oh, they left F1 to develop another exciting, high performance vehicle that will sell in similar numbers to an F1 car.
> It reportedly produces over 24,000 watts of juice with a high-power dual motor controller setup developed with partner Rage Mechanics, which is a French company making all kinds of high-performance electric microvehicles.
So they actually left F1 to resell a downsized version of someone else's designs (Rage Mechanics developed a 50kW version) with extra springiness in the steering to make it less twitchy at higher speeds.
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#7The small wheels were blamed for people with street-legal scooters steering into a rut and falling. Seems motorsports is bringing massive improvements to regular people after a long time.
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#8Scooters are just deceptively dangerous. The ease with which you can just hop on and go 20, 30, 40mph in instant is a false sense of security. There’s no drama, no warning, just pure speed standing upright, feet mere inches off the ground. Crashing on a 100mph scooter is sure to end gruesomely.
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#9> “because we think electric scooters are the most important vehicle innovation of this century.” Perhaps.. if you've never experienced urban property theft. Which is what prevents me from buying an electric bicycle. Similarly the designers of these products seem to incorporate no anti theft technology into any of their products. A scooter that goes blisteringly fast? Hardly an innovation on it's own.
You know you can bring your scooter inside, right?
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#10> “because we think electric scooters are the most important vehicle innovation of this century.” Perhaps.. if you've never experienced urban property theft. Which is what prevents me from buying an electric bicycle. Similarly the designers of these products seem to incorporate no anti theft technology into any of their products. A scooter that goes blisteringly fast? Hardly an innovation on it's own.
I’m sad that scooters are illegal to ride on the road here in the uk. I’d happily pay maybe £50 a year for insurance and tax if it was an option.
For a while I rode my father’s scooter around town, it was brilliant for short errands and fit easily in the boot of my car. Great for when a bicycle is a little too large or you don’t want to expend the energy.
(My father never actually rode the scooter, he hoped that by adding a seat he could use it instead of an old people’s buggy, but he couldn’t get his feet down fast enough and going at a slow speed on a small pavement was hard to keep balance- he got an electric tricycle instead. )