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"While new electric car sales in Australia have been solidly cracking the 11%
mark and breaking records, the same cannot be said for electric scooters and
motorcycles. Australia is missing a trick when it comes to these congestion
busting, decarbonisation secret weapons. And make no mistake, they are
everywhere in China and wildly popular.
To be fair, e-bikes have likely stolen some of their thunder, but they still
have a use case, and there are plenty of petrol motorcycles and scooters on
Australian roads ripe for electrification.
Potentially one of the biggest hindrances to uptake is high registration and
insurance costs. It’s no wonder some people have been opting for illegally
modified electric bicycles, which don’t require registration or insurance.
So potentially reducing these costs for electric motorcycles and scooters might
see more people embracing them. One could argue (depending on the
infrastructure) that it feels safer riding a scooter on a busy road than a
bicycle, because cars allow you to take the lane and you can keep up with
traffic flow.
For many years I rode a Vespa GTS 300 Super, and it served as a practical
second vehicle, albeit a little bulky and certainly very heavy for a small lady
like myself.
I was always conscious of the fact that if I ever dropped it, at over a 150kg,
I wouldn’t be picking it back up again. So it was very exciting to ride a
legitimate electric alternative to a 300cc petrol scooter, the Fonz Arthur Z
Series. Even the design feels like a love letter to Vespa, or perhaps the
electric scooter Vespa SHOULD have made, and at 108kg, the Z Series is much
easier to manoeuvre."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
