micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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I'm struggling to think of another application where a ring motor would be the superior option, except maybe: 1) EUCs, or 2) scenarios where the transmission needs to reside within the motor. That latter scenario is from something I vaguely remember seeing on YouTube, where the opposite was performed: sticking an engine within the hollow cavity of a massive transaxle.
But this is already a niche list of applications. Automobiles would not benefit from hollow hub motors because there's already stuff onboard of each wheel. The only plausible case is for an AWD/4WD vehicle that wants to minimize torque steer by having the transaxle length be equal on both sides, precisely by having the transmission and motor centered.
Spokes -- of both the wire variety on bicycles, and the solid type in automobiles -- serve a structural purpose, and their removal for no other reason than aesthetics is a disservice to practicality, specifically by increasing weight and servicing effort when changing a tire.
You forgot 3: When you want to look like some cool dude on a bike from the future.
The future is chrome!