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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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From my experience of using an electric car, I do go slightly slower on the highway than when I was using a ICE.
Not because of range anxiety, the electric charging network is well developed in France so finding a place to charge has never been an issue so far.
No, it's because when you get an electric car you start being way more conscious about how much energy you are using and the energy usage difference between 130km/h and 110km/h is quite significant for not a big difference in time.
I can imagine. We were doing between about 160 to 240 over a few hours. That's a lot of energy to burn.
Going at 160km/h is using around twice the amount of gas per 100km compared to going at 110km/h.
At 240km/h it's 5 time the amount of gas ! At this speed you should be the one worrying about range, not the EV owner.
Haha. I get it. It's a company car though. As many are. The corporation pays the fuel bill. So the vehicle has to be able to perform like that for many, many km. And it does. There will be a change coming for sure, but right now, the EV just can't do it.
I was not thinking about the cost for the wallet but more for the cost for the environment.
I don't think using 5 time more energy just to gain few minutes is the best use of limited resources, we are transitioning from a world where resources a considered unlimited to a world where resources are scarce and need to be used appropriately.
So there is a change coming for sure but I expect the change will be more that speed on highways will get lower, few countries are already considering lowering the speed limit on highways.