Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: 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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It's a little sad that we need to actually say this, but:
Don't be an asshole or you will be permanently banned.
Respectful debate is totally OK, criticizing a product is fine, but being verbally abusive will not be tolerated.
Focus on discussing the idea, not attacking the person.
Stop. Trying. To. Make. Hydrogen. HAPPEN.
It's not going to happen, and even if it does in some small niche, it's not going to replace battery electric. Electricity is ubiquitous, H2 infrastructure is disappearing.
For now at least. Hydrogen would be a fantastic energy source for vehicles if we were at the point where renewable electricity was abundant and we could spare it to inefficiently make hydrogen locally, as the fuel cells are simple and don't require nearly as large of an amount of rare elements a battery does.
Because trying to convert all of the over 1.5 billion cars to electric with lithium batteries isn't really going to work either.
What a terrible, wasteful idea. Cracking hydrogen out of water at home will waste so much electricity that you may as well just drive a damned car.
Idiotic propaganda probably paid for by the fossil fuel industry
I wonder who might benefit from attempting to steer people away from e-bikes and towards hydrogen, instead of technology that already works and might decrease car usage.
To build on that - despite bike companies trying their hardest to over complicate things - e-bikes are fairly straightforward to build, maintain and modify.
Tons of great (and safe but not cheap) DIY kits out there too which help make old bikes new again.
My e-bike is an old 90s MTB with a 220km range ( at the lowest assist level and 32km/hr top speed). That doesn’t include the benefits I get from regen braking when riding it in urban / suburban areas.
Whoever wrote that article is completely clueless. It's still an e-bike (literally says it has an electric motor), just with a hydrogen fuel cell for energy storage instead of a battery.
The credibility of Ecoticias is up in the air as they have a plethora of hydrogen fuel articles.
Hydrogen fuel is not currently a sustainable nor ecofriendly fuel.
Only 500Wh with two tanks? That's, at most, parity with a single lithium-ion battery e-bike; for the same weight too.
I've already bemoaned the non-existent journalism that exists with Ecoticias before, and my only regret is that because that prior post to Ecoticias three months ago was deleted, I cannot properly link to my earlier comment, which reads as follows:
Can we please stop linking to ecoticias? These articles are either AI-written, or have terrible copyeditors. Even just the title already shows a poor understanding of ebike terminology, as well as units. 180 Wh is a unit of energy that might describe a battery’s capacity. Whereas motors are rated in Watts (a unit of power) or horsepower for Americans.
Also, this particular topic is somewhat old, with a much better link showing up in this community last year: https://lemmy.world/post/12008344