"RICHMOND, Calif. — Serious transportation, or fun toy?

It’s the policy question that faces the scooter and the e-bike, the smallest forms of electric transportation. They’re surging in popularity among regular people, but the government hasn’t yet adopted them as solutions to solve heavy-duty problems like traffic jams or climate change. And it is not certain that it ever will.

Electric scooters and e-bikes don’t protect against snow or rain like a car, but advocates see them as multipurpose tools that could protect the future city from a host of problems, from traffic fatalities to carbon emissions to housing shortages, while also bringing a bit of a thrill to the morning commute.

But first micromobility, as some call it, has to prove that it is actually useful day-to-day."

David Ferris reports for E&E News October 18, 2022. [2]

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