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Thoughts about electric quad bikes for 'ruralism'? (s3.amazonaws.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21667133

I'm a country boy all my life. I can't cycle or take the metro anywhere. Walkable cities are great but they're a hundred miles away.

Everyone goes on about how they hate cars, but what else are you supposed to do?

https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/livaq-equad-unveiled-as-most-capable-electric-atv-ever/ – this article talks about something with a 108km/h and a range of 273 km. It's mad expensive unfortunately, but that is normally to do with adoption rates and scale.

(It says "claims a range of 170 miles (273 km) from its 15.4 kWh battery pack", which implies consumption of about 55 watt-hours per km travelled, though that'd be variable depending on speed and conditions)

If I had one of these, I could get to town, get to a train station, without a car. I could carry one child, which is worse than a car, but the energy consumption is a 3-4× lower than a car. If train stations had swappable batteries, that would be ideal, but I don't see that coming any time soon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those thin wheels are not going to hold up to what passes for roads in the places where someone is considering an ATV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

places where someone is considering an ATV.

I have seen that. But was it a requirement? Or was the ATV type just the first small electric vehicle that he stumbled upon?

BTW such ones are used on the good and bad roads :) of India:

https://mahindralastmilemobility.com/treo-hrt