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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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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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All the power of an ebike with all the convenience of a kerosene powered motorcycle.

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[–] smuuthbrane 4 points 5 months ago

Recharged in seconds… presuming you happen to be in one of the few areas of the globe with hydrogen infrastructure, and that you live close to it, or are willing to be charged obscene rates to cart a couple of litres of hydrogen out to wherever you live, on the outside chance there's a local gas supplier that would even do that.

Thanks, I'll charge at home. Or at work. Or anyplace in between where I have access to mains power, which is pretty much EVERYWHERE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eh, we can do the exact same thing with swappable batteries, this isn't a unique selling point.

I know it'll never happen because no one wants to put the work into build the infrastructure, but the appeal of hydrogen to me is the larger energy density compared to batteries. That's ignoring all the other downsides of hydrogen of course, but imo a lot of those are due to lack of commercial interest, there's just not as much money in improving them compared to batteries.

Ideally we just end up with super amazing batteries and never have to worry about storing pressurised gas that loves to escape basically any container.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully one that doesn't explode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's always a positive lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Basically a sodastream[^1] canister with H~2~. How convenient...

[^1]: Israel-based company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Fyi I didnt post it because I thought it was a good idea.