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Re: Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order

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Post by georgespencer »

ecnahc515 wrote: post #16
DerpyBaby123 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should they? What sort of emissions do electric vehicles have? I suspect you'll say that generating electricity causes emissions, which is only true in some cases

One of the bigger arguments is also in the production itself can be not very eco-friendly, eg: creating the batteries themselves.

You are exactly right. People have a tendency to discount the production of the non-emission-generating thing in the first place. The energy and emissions required to build something like this is non-trivial.

It should be mandated that if you want to appeal to green-fingered consumers with your marketing, you have to state the emissions deficit from which your product operates and how many years it would take to recover from it with typical usage.

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Post by ravenstine »

DerpyBaby123 wrote: post #14
allworknoplay wrote: post #7

> "give your commute a higher purpose with zero carbon emissions." Can people please stop claiming electric vehicles are zero emissions?

Why should they? What sort of emissions do electric vehicles have? I suspect you'll say that generating electricity causes emissions, which is only true in some cases

Because most electricity still comes from natural gas and coal. Nuclear energy still produces nuclear waste which has to go somewhere. Unless someone is relying purely on wind or solar, which is rare, they're still creating pollution by-proxy when they're charging their electric vehicle. You can't call it "zero emissions" when the emissions are just out of sight and out of mind.

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Post by avree »

k3oni wrote: post #15

I'm sorry but at 1.3K i was expecting a bit more, or maybe i'm just off but that price looks high to me.

I'm not sure if it's really too high. Boosted Boards are quite popular and sell at a $1,399 price point. Seems like an equivalent purchase.

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Post by adrianmonk »

primo44 wrote: post #5

*its "it's" = "it is"

Here's how I keep this straight mentally.

The rule is, in English, you can make a noun possessive by adding "'s" to the end.

Let me emphasize one part: that's the rule to make A NOUN possessive. "It" is a pronoun, not a noun! The rule doesn't apply any more than it applies to a verb or an adjective.

Hence you don't have stuff like "you's", "he's", "she's", "we's", or "I's", and you also don't have "it's".

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Post by sschueller »

tyopiuy wrote: post #10

Evidence their business model isn’t working out. Their scooters (along with all the other companies) have all but disappeared from my area, where they once littered the sidewalk. Once you fall once or twice on these scooters, it’s hard to ride them again. Especially when it’s the scooter that’s broken, as is often the case. It’s a shrinking market base, consequently. They (Uber-Jump, Lime) should have given incentive…

They haven't learned it yet here (Switzerland). A new one from Berlin just showed up. Now we have Bird, Flash and Tier (both out of Berlin). Ironic since these scooters are illegal in Germany so they can't operate them in their own country.

Lime has bailed out of Zürich after a serious accident which was caused by a scooter applying the park brake at speed due to some firmware issue.

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