Love everything here! I want cities with lots of public transit and lots of these types of devices to get everyone around. It would be so much better than all the cars!
Shouldn't e bikes be called mopeds as it has a motor and you pedal? I think part of the name problem comes from UK US difference where In the UK a 50cc with pedals used to be called a moped, but then they lost the pedals and now people call 50s mopeds or scooters, and anything over 125s are definitely scooters not mopeds. Surely just standing or sitting scooter is the main difference, if you ignore the legality issues. The only other real difference is the size and width of the scooters, but that varies model to model.
As Tim Scott said, you can't call them mopeds because they don't have pedals. Technically they're all motorcycles, and the reason we call them scooters is because of the way you sit on them and diminutive size. The Vespa style should be called "step-in scooter", the Bird style should be called "standing scooter" and the Bird style with seat should be called "sit-on scooter".
Having used an ebike exclusively for the last year, I have to say that the microcars are really an interesting proposition, because weather isn't always great, and covering up in waterproof clothing to ride in the rain is kind of a miserable experience. There are two things IMHO that microcars need to improve upon though. First is their acceptability on bike paths, and second is the repairability. The Eli in particular looks like it's made from a lot of proprietary parts. My ebike is almost entirely made out of off-the-shelf parts, which makes it very easy to find replacements when needed, easy to repair, and cheap to repair.
That new Veo tandem bike is super intriguing. Any chance we can get an update to that list of passenger bikes you guys put out last year? I've been looking for a bike with a 370lb payload capacity for myself and the girl! Great video, lots of interesting stuff!
It’s too hot in Phoenix to have a micro mobility battery just baking in my garage charging overnight. I would make some kind of set up inside my house to keep the batteries at a nicer temperature during recharge. Of course, I worry about battery safety inside my house. were there any products they’re geared toward charging safety like a mini firewall or anything?
Really don’t like the fact that you misrepresented the fact that this event was held in San Francisco… it was not. You were in Richmond, California at the historic Ford Motor Co. Assembly Plant which was built in 1931 as the first auto assembly plant in the west coast and now a National Historic Park. What else did you misrepresent in your video?
Cool. And a COOL Place to showcase all the new Electric transportation vehicles. Wishing The HyperLoop was already available I would love to be there to experience all these cool rides and the San Francisco area. I prefer to stay on land than flying a polluting plane.
Hyperloop is impossible due one simple energy factor see vacuum trains. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain The only reasonable way to account for the major energy problem is with fusion or very efficient solar, since we have neither the closest thing we probably could do is have massive nuclear power plants every couple of miles. Basically meaning there's no way to effectively remove enough air out of the tube to achieve a vacuum, so that gadgetbahn fails like every other. The only solution we have that seems to work every time is a train with overhead wires.
The fact that the show was huge tends to make me think that attitudes to personal transportation are rapidly changing away from mainly just large four wheeler vehicles and that this may be reflected in a marked reduction in car ownership in the future; car ownership is already falling among the youth demographic. Car ownership is no longer the right of passage it once was when I was young.
Conspicuously absent: Better Bike with their upcoming new PEBL model, and whomever owns Organic Transit now. Doubting either of them have a real product coming, at this point.
REALLY?? 🤔🤔 We have human powered vehicles that can move up to 100,000 pounds. We pedaled an F700 Dump Truck UPHILL with our system. We can load that F150 on the back of BIG RED and pedal away. 🤣🤣🤣💀💀😁
You should stop comparing e-bikes and scooters to Tesla, as its not even endearing. They have poor quality control, you cant buy replacement parts for them, and autopilot has already been well surpassed by Mobileye and Waymo, companies that actually have level 4 autonomous taxi's you can use.
This is one of the biggest misconceptions (and strawmen) of the e-vehicle community. It's also about state registration, license tags, yearly property tax, yearly emissions inspection, expensive insurance, having my catalytic converter stolen, having to keep a car and pay for all of that (plus monthly payments) when I never go more than 10 miles from my house. It's about being able to bike while still having the reassurance that I'll still be able to get home if my bum knee locks up. It's about seniors being able to exercise and go enjoy the outdoors again even though they no longer have the strength to power-pedal themselves up a moderate hill. It's about *anyone* in your household being able to hop into/onto your vehicle and zip up to the store for something, regardless of whether they have a license, are on your insurance, etc. It's about being able to fold up an entire vehicle and toss it in the back of my car when I accompany my husband on a work trip, and getting to ride around whatever city we're in even though he has the car. The people in those micro-cars are in no more danger than someone on a bike, vespa, or motorcycle, and it's not just about being green. Try knocking that chip off of your shoulder and looking at things from the perspective of someone who *isn't* barely 30yrs old and perfectly healthy.
