I’m a country boy all my life. I can’t cycle or take the metro anywhere. Walkable cities are great but they’re a hundred miles away.
Everyone goes on about how they hate cars, but what else are you supposed to do?
https://electrek.co/2023/12/04/livaq-equad-unveiled-as-most-capable-electric-atv-ever/ – this article talks about something with a 108km/h and a range of 273 km. It’s mad expensive unfortunately, but that is normally to do with adoption rates and scale.
(It says “claims a range of 170 miles (273 km) from its 15.4 kWh battery pack”, which implies consumption of about 55 watt-hours per km travelled, though that’d be variable depending on speed and conditions)
If I had one of these, I could get to town, get to a train station, without a car. I could carry one child, which is worse than a car, but the energy consumption is a 3-4× lower than a car. If train stations had swappable batteries, that would be ideal, but I don’t see that coming any time soon.
It would be nice if it looked less EXTREME
This would not be great in the winter, the truth is for rural living personal vehicles (or at least communal vehicles) are going to be required
Don’t worry about the charge if this has an standard plug. My car loads 55 kW in little more than 100 minutes. And the last 20% needs something like half an hour.
Edit: too expensive. My car (MG 4 standard) costed me less than 30K€ and has a range of 400 km.
Why not a cargo bike with electric assist?
Do you need its off-road capability? If not, you could search for tiny electric cars that are sold in your country.
