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by cjlars 1605 days ago
Plenty of electric scooters have no mechanical brakes and only electric braking on one hub. But since an extra couple feet of stopping power can be a life or death feature, you definitely want breaking on both tires. Even assuming no reliability issues with the electric breaks (hello sudden rain storm), mechanical is a cheap and weight efficient way of adding braking to the second hub.