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I've been riding an electric motorbike for a year. I will never go back to ICE based transportation. I get 100km a charge on my motorbike, which can go 100kms

I've been riding an electric motorbike for a year. I will never go back to ICE based transportation. I get 100km a charge on my motorbike, which can go 100kms/hour - and this is simply enough for me. The user experience is superlative in every other way. I don't mind having batteries to swap out - its perfectly fine. I have a set at work and a set at home, and I never, ever find myself waiting for a charge - I just swap batteries when I need to. And next year I can look forward to some nice battery upgrades that will push things even further. Thats really, really exciting - new range and power capabilities, just by swapping the battery box. And as well, there are new hub motors on the horizon which I will probably upgrade. All of this adds up to a far, far better user experience than my prior ICE motorbike. You can therefore take my electric motorbike into the Concorde grave in the sky when you pry it from my cold dead fingers ..

devilbunny 3y ago
A electric motorcycle is surely an efficient form-factor, and 100 km/h is fast enough not to be crushed out of hand, but it has all the safety issues of ICE motorcycles and is basically a nonstarter in a lot of places due to weather. Too hot, too cold, too rainy, whatever. I want an electric microcar that will do 100 km/h. With climate control and enclosure. Or I want a totally walkable city. Since I live in the US outside of a tiny handful of places, public transit isn't going to cut it.