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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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The material, discovered in 2004, was meant to be revolutionary. But only now is the technology coming of age

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

By the old journalism rule: no...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Graphene breakthroughs are up there with new battery tech and HIV cures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah but supposedly we're actually finally getting solid state tech commercially available in things like vehicles within the next year or two.

Technically, you can already buy them as external battery packs for devices but they are pricey compared to old lithium ion batteries.