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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Ebike: $2k
Conversion kit if you already have a bike: $500
Car: $10k/year
$10k a year for a car? My car, a plug-in hybrid, has a monthly payment of $320, insurance is around $100 and I use around 2kwhr to and from work daily, which costs less than $2 weekly. I only use gas when driving over 50 miles a day, which works out to a 10 gallon fill once a season, so around $120/year. I mainly drive it as an electric vehicle, maintenance is minimal. The car costs me $5208 a year in predictable costs and so far in 3 years has needed two new sets of tires and an oil change.
If you drive a massive vehicle sure it can cost more, but cars don't have to be a 5-digit item on your yearly budget.
$10k is the average annual cost in the USA.
I own outright and it's still $4k CAD a year without amortization of purchase price.
Even $2k is a lot. You can easily get a good enough one at $800. Which is pretty damn cheap compared to what everyone on my city spends on meat bikes.
Probably, but $2k was my first hit in duckduckgo ;)