Are electric scooters still a west coast thing in the US?
The share programs didn’t really take off in the north-east, but I see a lot of personal e-scooters in NYC. (I just got one myself and it’s a great fit for the city)
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#22Are electric scooters still a west coast thing in the US?
Bird, Lime and Spin are still operating throughout the US but the market’s stabilized over the years; you don’t see tons of new stock or them dumped absolutely everywhere and they’re less of a novelty now, most cities have gravitated towards one or two of the major companies while the others have pulled out and concentrate on other locations.
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#24With me working remote these past two years my wife and I have found that we don’t necessarily need to be a two car household. I bought a reasonably nice ($1200) scooter last year and have been doing all my errands on our city’s great bike trails. I have maybe 3-500 miles on it now and while it’s not as nice or as fast as driving it is a wonderful experience every time I take it out.
Out of interest, why a scooter and not an e-bike?
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#25Crikey, 250W motor... they are handy and certainly better than everyone driving a car everywhere, but somehow the combination of power and low barrier to entry invites a particular type of road (and pavement) assholery I could really do without. At least in my locale.
250W continuous is not that much, and very much necessary (and possibly not sufficient) to handle even middling hills. For reference, 1HP = 735.5W. The worst 50cc you'll find are around 3HP, or above 2100W. Child-class go-karts generally start around 5hp, and the most common engines are the 6.5HP GX200 (or harbor freight's copy).
Go carts don’t go on pavements while talking on the mobile phone.
I don’t mind the power, clearly, only what stupid people do with it.
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#26Here in bangalore after fuel prices shot up everyone is buying electric scooters and bikes left and right. I used to only occasionally finding electric vehicles but these days I see a lot of them and none of them are cars. E-bikes, e-scooters, E-trikes, E-buses, E-minivans but no electric cars
Can u share some (final, retail) prices of e-bikes or e-scooter. In my (mediterranean) country, prices have been creeping UP over the last 3 years, mostly due to lack of competition and importers somehow cornering the market ;/ Prices are now more expensive than when i bought my first ebike 5 years ago.
Here are some of the leading brands in india
Hero : https://heroelectric.in/
This is a standard motorcycle brand diversifying into electric
Aether: https://www.atherenergy.com/
This is a recently funded electric vehicle startup
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
250W continuous is not that much, and very much necessary (and possibly not sufficient) to handle even middling hills. For reference, 1HP = 735.5W. The worst 50cc you'll find are around 3HP, or above 2100W. Child-class go-karts generally start around 5hp, and the most common engines are the 6.5HP GX200 (or harbor freight's copy).
Go carts don’t go on pavements while talking on the mobile phone. I don’t mind the power, clearly, only what stupid people do with it.
> I don’t mind the power, clearly, only what stupid people do with it.
It is not clear at all, no. You pretty literally assert that 250W is a lot of power
> Crikey, 250W motor... [...] somehow the combination of power
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#28Crikey, 250W motor... they are handy and certainly better than everyone driving a car everywhere, but somehow the combination of power and low barrier to entry invites a particular type of road (and pavement) assholery I could really do without. At least in my locale.
My Tesla has 270,000 watts including both motors. 250 watts is less than half of 1 horsepower. My lawnmower is more powerful than that. Were you thinking 250kW maybe?
> 250 watts is less than half of 1 horsepower.
For a more precise fraction, it's almost exactly 1/3rd HP (33.9% compared to metric HP, 33.5% compared to imperial).
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#29Crikey, 250W motor... they are handy and certainly better than everyone driving a car everywhere, but somehow the combination of power and low barrier to entry invites a particular type of road (and pavement) assholery I could really do without. At least in my locale.
250W is what a fit human can put out continuously, it's nothing.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go carts don’t go on pavements while talking on the mobile phone. I don’t mind the power, clearly, only what stupid people do with it.
> I don’t mind the power, clearly, only what stupid people do with it. It is not clear at all, no. You pretty literally assert that 250W is a lot of power > Crikey, 250W motor... [...] somehow the combination of power
I’ll simplify it for you. 250W is too much for an obnoxious idiot on the pavement.