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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: 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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Solar Scooters introduced its Hyperion electric scooter that can top out at 65 mph and has a maximum range of 70 miles.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not aware of any BLDC ESCs that implement boost conversion.

Looking it up it seems such a circuit would be beefy indeed when built to handle the amperages of propulsion.

Controlling the voltage coming out of the battery is already done using pulse width modulation, but this can only reduce the voltage, not increase it.

There's little point in boosting the voltage to achieve higher top speed, as configuring a battery pack for voltage is very easy.

To the point that I'm here lamenting that PEV designs are upping the top speed even when utterly unnecessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was joking, yout silly potato. The forklift battery thing was supposed to be a tipoff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would there be anything wrong with a forklift battery?

A battery pack is a battery pack.

Drop an /s next time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Forklift batteries are also ballast. They're lead-acid and weight 600lbs at the minimum. It's a comically bad idea to use one for a personal vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks. I'll go ahead and file that under "obvious common knowledge" going forward. /S

I know how lithium packs work and how to program a VESC. That's all.