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KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

with electric options such as e-bikes or scooters to get you thay last bit if you need it.

Hi! I’d like to introduce you to winter. It destroys this as a workable solution, because for multiple months of the year it’s impossible for these to run. Meaning they’d need a last mile winter solution, such as… a car.

There’s also the issue of these types of solutions being notoriously hard to maintain. I believe the majority of city “e-thing” companies have gone under because it’s an unworkable system.

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