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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"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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205 miles is pretty abysmal for range. Basically any ICE touring or ADV bike can beat that and it's much cheaper.
No, that's not abysmal. Have you seen the other electric motorcycles? The new electric Ninjas get like 40 miles of range, and the more expensive Live wire gets 100-150. The Zeros probably also get 75-150 miles of range at highway speeds.
For another perspective, my ICE Suzuki GZ250 gets something like 170 miles to a tank at highway speeds, but I don't have a fuel gauge so I refill every 100-130 miles. Other ICE motorcycles like some Harley-Davidson Sportsters get just 100 miles in a full tank of gas due to a small tank and big engine. The fast sport bikes tend to get about 150. Even the Goldwing, a luxury touring motorcycle, gets about 190 miles to a tank.
It's rare to see 200+ miles of range in an ICE motorcycle at highway speeds, so I think it's quite impressive to get this range in an electric motorcycle at highway speeds. The charging speed also seems quite good, as I'd probably want a 20 minute break after 175 miles of riding. The only thing that sucks is the high price, you can get a brand new Hayabusa for 20% less than this.