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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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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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Plugs, connectors, and cables often break, corrode, get vandalized, etc. The physical connections on most of the electronic devices I've owned have been the first thing to fail. The wireless connections and wireless charging has NEVER been something that I've ever had to worry about physically breaking. I'd wage that infrastructure maintenance is going to cost much more in the long run than the cost of inefficiency introduced by wireless charging.
There’s some truth to that. I’ve had some USB ports fail on phones that were quite a pain to fix or not really fixable at all.
Wireless charging of a phone avoids degrading the USB port through more use. The difference with a phone is that the absolute amount of inefficiency is so much smaller because a phone battery is so much smaller than a bike.