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  • The future of mopeds and motorcycles is electric

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 19 19:56:14 2023
    Erik Buell on the future of electric motorcycles

    The USA might be the land of the automobile, with its grid-oriented
    cities, wide roads and interstates rolling off into the horizon. But
    cities that were not built for cars have narrow, winding and possibly
    cobbled streets without many parking options, and you'll find that
    mopeds and small-engined bikes of various stripes are a far more
    common sight in these cities than cars. They are cheap to run, easy to maintain, and relatively simple to learn to ride. Mostly, they're not
    about recreation, but about transportation and business.

    Back when I lived in London, a motorcycle was my primary mode of
    transport. I've whizzed around Hanoi on a moped. Bangkok, Fes, Paris,
    Rome: They're filled with mopeds and motorcycles. But what's going to
    happen to this mode of transport as we shift away from internal
    combustion engines and toward electrification?

    I spoke to motorcycle legend Erik Buell to get his vision for what the
    future holds. A motorcycle racing champion, engineer, and founder of
    the Buell Motorcycle Company, Buell helps the Fuell company dream up
    what's next -- including the recently launched, $10,695 Fuell Fllow.

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/17/the-future-of-electric-motorcycles/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Sep 20 01:13:05 2023
    On 2023-09-20, JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Erik Buell on the future of electric motorcycles Back when I lived in
    London, a motorcycle was my primary mode of transport. I've whizzed
    around Hanoi on a moped. Bangkok, Fes, Paris, Rome: They're filled
    with mopeds and motorcycles. But what's going to happen to this mode
    of transport as we shift away from internal combustion engines and
    toward electrification?

    This makes perfect sense to me. Makes far more sense than the current
    trend of making large American cars even heavier/larger under EV. Think
    I may just have read something elsewhere about this very subject - for
    most of the world a small, electric scooter/motorcycle makes for useful transport.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Sep 19 21:12:26 2023
    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:13:05 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

    for most of the world a small, electric scooter/motorcycle
    makes for useful transport.

    Where warmer weather prevails...

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Sep 20 00:25:35 2023
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:12:26 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:13:05 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

    for most of the world a small, electric scooter/motorcycle
    makes for useful transport.

    Where warmer weather prevails...

    Well we've solved that problem worldwide then, haven't we. About to be
    warm just about everywhere.

    Still, you make a good point.

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  • From rdh@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Sep 20 13:29:23 2023
    On 9/19/23 21:12, JAB wrote:
    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:13:05 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <[email protected]d> wrote:

    for most of the world a small, electric scooter/motorcycle
    makes for useful transport.

    Where warmer weather prevails...

    If only we had some kind of device you could put on your body to stay warm.

    --
    ~rdh

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to rdh on Wed Sep 20 20:49:48 2023
    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:29:23 -0500, rdh <[email protected]ute> wrote:

    If only we had some kind of device you could put
    on your body to stay warm.

    How do the Norwegian cyclists cope with winter?


    The Norwegians said: "It is okay, no problem, we are Vikings. Back
    home it is snow. This is great."

    We buy things like electric heating soles for our shoes, put on double
    layers of wool and fill our bottles with hot drink.

    https://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/team-hitec-products-uck/how-do-the-norwegian-cyclists-cope-with-winter/

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