It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes

Re:It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes by FlagsAreFun on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:21PM (#36488504)

This is the same for e-scooter rideshare schemes. Much of the evidence points to escooter use replacing walking short distances, so environmentally it can be a net negative overall.

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Re:It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes by Spivak on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:50PM (#36488684)

Honestly the fact that they all become trash is why scooters annoy me. Like sure fine on a long enough time scale pretty much everything becomes trash but man they are not built to last.

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Re:It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes by chrismartin on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:06AM (#36488764)

Are they not built to last, or are they just abused and neglected? I suspect that personally-owned scooters tend to be kept somewhere safe and taken care of. VC-owned rental scooters tend to get trashed, because no one suffers a personal loss if a particular scooter becomes trash.

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Re:It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes by throw1230 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:29AM (#36488921)

I think the fact that e-scooters are more efficient on "distance travelled per watt" than humans, it might still be a positive

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