Since last year we’ve been looking for an affordable large electric scooter/moped that can be ridden comfortably on city streets with the flow of traffic. Key to this requirement is top speed: a vehicle that can do at least 40-45 mph.
We received no word from major manufacturers when we issued our challenge to them on Twitter last year.
The latest thing in urban mobility, a pogo stick??
With the dockless scooters now seemingly everywhere, Cangaroo popped out of nowhere claiming to be the next hottest thing in dockless sharable mobility. The concept was launched in collaboration a Swedish ad agency The Odd Company known for wacky marketing stunts. So the world still doesn’t know if this is for real.
But the idea of a sharable mobility stick might not be so crazy…if you put a wheel on it!
Electric micromobility options are extremely fun, super efficient, incredibly sustainable, and very affordable.
But they can also be incredibly accessible. Traditional wheelchairs and car-only street design can be severely limiting for urban mobility and constraining independence for many.
This amazing video shows the incredible beauty of human resourcefulness, generosity, ingenuity, and empathy-driven design.
We review the new semi-dockless Metro Smart Bikes with CoMotion, available now in Los Angeles.
Pick up these bikes from a dock but ride anywhere without worrying about finding a designated docking station!
Tesla’s are notoriously fast off the line.
A Model S P100D can do 0-60 in under 2.5 seconds.
But what about speed that actually matters: urban travel times?
The first three minutes in a medical 911 car are often the most critical.
Yet in so many urban environments, cars clog the streets. This means large ambulances are frequently stuck in traffic wasting precious time and often arriving too late.
This wonderful human being created a new service that’s miraculous on multiple levels:
We love this! It’s an insanely customizable, compact electric cargo bike from Blix.
The Packa is on IndieGoGo and has 16 days to go but it has already reached 356% of its original $50,000 goal!!
Leave that giant gas (or electricity) guzzling hulk of metal, your car, at home, and still be able to carry everything you need on just two wheels…including two kids! This is thanks to the Packa’s unique multi-modular racking system.
CEO of InMotion USA Rose Song Wong gives us a sneak peak at the vehicle that can make you feel like a superhero!
And Experience Manager Jeffrey Will gives a demo, showing how the V10F’s 16 inch wheel punches above punching above its weight in terms of performance.
UrmO is like a Segway (or hoverboard) that folds in one fluid motion as you pick it up and is light enough to simply carry around! This portable electric ride seems to be a truly unique, fun, and innovative solution to ther nagging first/last mile problem.
“Electric self-balancing scooter with a patent-pending folding mechanism for your last mile. Created by ex-Tesla and ex-BMW engineers.”
We review a Scoot scooter in San Francisco!
This new model has airless tires that aren’t solid rubber, but have notches in them to provide additional ride comfort over solid rubber airless tires, without the pitfalls of air tires (constant need for air pumping and/or punctures).
They also have locks, making them semi-dockless. Great for fleet management (helps against vandalism) and great for users, allowing the flexibility of dockless while removing dock anxiety.
