Great video Nic - I think the one thing that should also be considered in this comparison is parking - while a trip with a scooter may roughly take the same amount of time by car, the trip time can often take far longer when you're spending an additional 5 to 10 minutes, up to an hour on busier days, trying to find suitable parking. Compared to the seconds it takes park the escooter, provided you can lock it to a bike rack or secure fixture.
good point... and add to that having a full "tank" with PEV vs most cars... admittedly an EV is similar .. plug in at home save time because no gas station trips
I think, the really big word here is predictability: Even if driving is sometimes much faster (late night in), you can not rely on it. I have a similar scenario here, averaging around 18 min and the worst is losing one min when crossing the ring road. Ok, or that one time, I was stuck behind a drunk guy doing slalom in his mobility scooter, blocking the whole 4 meter bike path… Driving? Can be anything between 14 minutes and almost half an hour. And the bus needs 22 on a route that's similar to the bike route.
One way, my trip to work is 20 minutes and commuting is about 45 minutes on my gravel bike or ebike. Even sweating my butt off on my gravel bike I would prefer that to the relative comfort of my car. The amount of stress driving induces cannot be understated. I work a physical job and even after a hard day, that ride home does wonders for my mental health. Great video!
I'll take my ebike any day in Vancouver vs. a car. The only exceptions are when I'm bringing gear or people. Operating costs further seal the deal given our gas prices.
I have a Segway GT2. The commute is longer on my scooter but I have a must more beautiful view riding to work along the river and I’m not stressed out with peoples bad driving. Great video tho
I have a car and a scooter. I actually liked going for drives when I lived out of the city, but living downtown now driving sucks!! I try to scoot everywhere as long as I can. Only time I take the car now is when the paths are under the snow or I need to carry a ton of things (or an extra person).
But you never took into consideration a trip where there was a wreck in the auto lanes or the bike lanes. For a car it could be hours if there was a fatality, but on a PEV there would not be a big stoppage. Just a slight delay to walk around it on the sidewalks.
i try to travel using a scooter now i just feel its better. I can hit the sidewalk if we get traffic. Since im classified as a ebike. I never really have to stop. so for me electric scooter is god send.
In Salem Oregon with about 175,000 people my emove cruiser at 33 mph more or less does the speed limit 90% of the city especially during 3-6 I probably shave off 5-8 minutes vs a car
Love it! I was riding home late last night around 1AM. It occurred to me the feeling of riding the scooter, any time of day, is like that of driving in the middle of the night when no one else is on the road.
I struggle to understand who the target audience is while watching your videos. People who use PEV's already understand how this impacts their commute already, and people who don't are not going to switch to save a minute or two here and there if that is plausible in their city. From my discussions with others, most people who don't use a PEV just don't like minor discomforts like being a bit wet or cold every now and then and are willing to pay more to avoid this situation. People who do use a PEV are generally motivated by fun and the cost savings. To change people over to public transit and micro mobility, cars need to become less comfortable. The only way cities can do that is by making parking availability worse and by slowing traffic considerably (without affecting public transit). Many car drivers inherently seem to understand that comfort is a motivation and go out of their way to make any use of micro mobility near them as uncomfortable as possible by generating loud noises and proximity to induce fear, or screaming at people out of their windows in their rolling living room who just are not doing what they want in society (aka bullies). This is the argument I hear THE most from cyclists about why they want totally dedicated infrastructure for their preferred method of moving around their communities, something that I think is ridiculous when beautiful roads already exist and the only thing we really need is to be accepting of all who need to use them.
GREAT VID, BUT IF YOUR GOING FURTHER DISTANCES THE CAR WINS ALMOST EVERY TIME BECAUSE YOU ABBLE TO GO ON THE HWY. I RIDE MY SCOOTER HERE IN TORONTO ALL THE TIME. FOR STUFF THAT IS CLOSE SCOOTER WINS, BUT GOING MORE THAT 20 KM CAR WINS
For half the year you’re safe and warm inside sheltered from the cold and rain. Automatic fail for the scooter. And with that, the car takes the victory ….Next!
