An electric future of transport!?

GGizmo

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I was thinking earlier (I know, very dangerous!), as we're moving to EV vehicles, and trying to remove vehicles from town centres, would this open a potential opportunity for electric scooters?

I've been looking at mobility scooters recently and I know they were popular in places like Benidorm, to which they had to bring in regulations as so many was using them.

What about for short journeys, scooters and e-bikes could be the answer?

We'll have to wait for that UFO flying technology before we can really go into the future.

Is this a crazy idea or does it have potential?

I was debating whether to put this in the motor section. But are scooters motors? Or are they an alternative to motors?
 
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In a lot of places this is exactly how it is. I'm not sure why it's not in the UK, probably a combination of the weather and regulations?
 
I was gonna question your definition of scooter, but then literally every single defition I can think of already has electric versions, most of which are prolific in major cities, and the standy-grandma-robby types can be hired almost anywhere.
 
Iv been to other countries in the EU,

they seem to embrace hire e-scooters in these places a lot more than the UK does. There is a lot more presence of electric scooters for hire in EU countries compared to the UK

The UK only does it in certain areas , I think london is one of them, and Bath is another place,

I dont think you see it in many other places?!


The volume of personally owned e-scooters you see people flying about on though is quite high
 
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dave28 said:
One major difference

Benidorm has the weather for it

We have the weather for hypothermia
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I dont think the weather is the only thing


a lot of the companies that hire out ebikes and escooters have retracted the services,

People get given a service, then they abuse it, the result is that a lot of these things end up in a ditch or not returned to the location where they are hired from
 
Electric bikes and scooters are very much the present in London, despite them being overwhelmingly illegal.
 
Bristol has them and the number of under age users and muppets with no sense of road safety is astounding. They also get dumped all over the place blocking pavements. We don't have the correct socially responsible attitude in this nation for too many things these days.

You also get the issue of people using private e-scooters illegally and you get even more problems. I have seen some of them moving at crazy speeds on pavements and then just blast across crossings without even pausing to check the traffic.
 
DJMK4 said:
I dont think the weather is the only thing


a lot of the companies that hire out ebikes and escooters have retracted the services,

People get given a service, then they abuse it, the result is that a lot of these things end up in a ditch or not returned to the location where they are hired from
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good point, it would certainly be abused in the UK, and probably targeted by scammers or theives on large scale
 
Oh, I forgot Bristol also had a fun time with the local authorised providers depot going up in flames due to a battery fire.
 
Diddums said:
I was gonna question your definition of scooter, but then literally every single defition I can think of already has electric versions, most of which are prolific in major cities, and the standy-grandma-robby types can be hired almost anywhere.
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They seem to be everywhere in spain too they're almost as common as cars at least in the towns
 
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GGizmo said:
I was debating whether to put this in the motor section. But are scooters motors? Or are they an alternative to motors?
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Legally they're motor vehicles, as is anything that looks like a bicycle but can be 'propelled' without using the pedals.

People caught using either potentially face points on their licence.
 
GGizmo said:
I was thinking earlier (I know, very dangerous!), as we're moving to EV vehicles, and trying to remove vehicles from town centres, would this open a potential opportunity for electric scooters?
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More likely drive footfall away from town centres, forcing even more shops to go online-only or just close down outright.
Yes there are park&ride facilities, but they cost money, are less convenient and don't allow you to get a bootload of shopping home or do anything else while you're out and about.

Plus scooters are dangerous and don't have registration plates or any other method by which to hold people accountable, should they happen to escape the incident.
 
Brun said:
Electric bikes and scooters are very much the present in London, despite them being overwhelmingly illegal.
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Private electric scooters are illegal on the UK roads, hired ones are legal.

Private electric bikes are legal on the road, providing the assistance ceases at 25Kph and the rider has to pedal to move and get assistance.

Electric bikes that don't stop assistance at 25Kph are illegal on the UK roads.

Electric bikes that get assistance without turning the pedals to move, are technically electric mopeds and are not covered by the laws regarding electric bicycles.
 
GGizmo said:
I was thinking earlier (I know, very dangerous!), as we're moving to EV vehicles, and trying to remove vehicles from town centres, would this open a potential opportunity for electric scooters?

I've been looking at mobility scooters recently and I know they were popular in places like Benidorm, to which they had to bring in regulations as so many was using them.

What about for short journeys, scooters and e-bikes could be the answer?

We'll have to wait for that UFO flying technology before we can really go into the future.

Is this a crazy idea or does it have potential?

I was debating whether to put this in the motor section. But are scooters motors? Or are they an alternative to motors?
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Hired scooters are legal, self owned ones are not. I don't have a problem as long as they are used on the roads and not mixing with pedestrians at a significant difference in speed.
 
Hagar said:
Hired scooters are legal, self owned ones are not. I don't have a problem as long as they are used on the roads and not mixing with pedestrians at a significant difference in speed.
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It would be interesting to see what would happen if a major city stopped all none commercial vehicles from entering. How people would change transport, and which becomes the most popular.
 
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