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

The sodium 18650s are available on Alibaba for a few weeks :)

And for re-use my "extra" batteries are all interchangeable or able to be put to use elsewhere when the bike isn't in use. ( I've been considering an inverter for power outages).

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

Btw what are sodium 18650s? A new safer version?

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

Cheaper ( like 1/3? ), last longer ( more discharge /charge cycles ), can safely drain to 0.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf that sounds awesome, any downside?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Iess dense energy storage ( bigger size ).

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

I mean you personally may be able to reuse them, but most people just throw their old escooter (or whatever) away when they get a new one, or at best resell it or donate it.

Image how cheap a new ebike could be if you only had to swap the batteries from your old one