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I realise this is a different class of bike, vis a vis e-bike vs. e-motorbike, but just by way of experience I've been an avid rider of electric mopeds (Vespa, UNU) and now an electric motorbike (Bonfire X) in a European city where such devices really are the best ways to get around, given the appropriate weather conditions. These are kind of 'traditional' moped and motorbike (scrambler) form-factor machines, but fully electric. The Bonfire X has a nice regeneration factor, so it really whines like tron if you get it lined up on the right PID slope. The riding/getting around town experience is delightfully quiet, not necessarily super-charged (although it could be), but also nevertheless non-polluting - in the city/sphere of use - and I can only say I hope these kinds of bikes really are just the beginning of what can be done to truly make an efficient transportation system based around electric power. Wind, hydro and solar are perfectly cromulant ways to charge ones batteries, and get around. If only we could get the component manufacture and assembly done in a way that was ecologically better than the petro-system, alas .. there is work to be done on this but I am sure I will personally within the year, wire up my electric transportation devices to a solar system, and go pretty much off-grid for charging for a few months, at least .. I will attempt to get 100k'ms worth of free ride out of the sunshine, over the next year. If the e-bike / e-motorbike markets begin to coalesce, I can only imagine we will see extremely efficient machines on the horizon .. or in the mirror (in my case), hehe .. |