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.
Hot take: it’s ok for actual rural residents to use sensible trucks and cars.
Do you need its off-road capability? If not, you could search for tiny electric cars that are sold in your country.
What is the weather like where you are? It would be brutal to have to use this on a regular basis in cold, rainy, or even very hot weather.
Even a small car would give you so much more capability and you could use it no matter the weather.
Fun toy, but doesn’t seem like a car replacement
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
Why not a cargo bike with electric assist?
