micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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I recently bought an eBike after maybe 10 years of not bicycling bc I moved to an area that is radically unfriendly for bikes and had the thought that I could pretty easily pull a small center-balanced trailer with a 50lb LiFePo4 battery and two 200W solar panels arranged in an alpine frame above it.
Add a MPPT controller and some cables, and my thought was, perhaps it could essentially make a "one to stock, one to rock" scenario with the bike batteries — one is in use to go like 30 miles, then you swap the charged one in and get 30 more miles. These eBike batteries aren't the biggest, they should be able to charge pretty quickly. My gut says you could get between 2-3 free battery charges per day like this.
Does anyone have any insight on this? Feels like it could be a good way to bring bicycle touring back onto the menu.
There's a lot to unpack here. Might I suggest you make a new post in this community for this solar-powered ebike+trailer endeavor? That'll also garner more input than as a comment on a post about a commercially-available ebike.
Fair enough. Just more of an idle thought over coffee.