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EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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I've honestly been considering giving up my car for an electric scooter for the summer - my wife will keep her car, so we can still go to places with the family, but I don't need a car for my work commute. At the same time, I'm too lazy to wake up early enough to walk.
Helps that I live in a medium sized European town. Escooters and bikes are very viable - and you can rent them for a low fee too, from multiple providers (I do wish they didn't each require their own app, but of course they do).
Do it! Just think of all the insurance, gas and repair money you'll save.
I'd personally advise for an e bike rather than a scooter since it's more versatile and allows you to put bags on it to transport stuff, but that's personal preference of course.
There's no cargo scooters?
I assumed scooter meant something like this: https://mein-escooter.de/cdn/shop/products/102005_1z_M-Racing_ART_940x.jpg
Yeah households don't really need two cars, drop it down to one.
We have plenty of scenarios where two cars make sense, but for a while we can do without.
Try out a rental and see how you feel about it. Keep in mind that even a bike with worse specs will probably be better due to not being used and abused by tons of people and proper bike fit also makes things infinitely better.
I've taken the local rental scooters a bunch of times, they're great utility, but quite worn. I used to cycle a bunch, but for short distances I actually prefer the scooter.
I took it as as a challenge and just started collecting scooter rental apps