_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoForget electric bikes, Kawasaki is building an electric horse for actual productionelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square61linkfedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down13
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkForget electric bikes, Kawasaki is building an electric horse for actual productionelectrek.co_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square61linkfedilink
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoBoth. Heavy, needlessly complex, trying to solve a problem no one had, expensive. They had an EV bike that also sold poorly. This is more about compliance for Japanese grants than sales. 30 years from now, people will buy them for YouTube channels but Kawasaki had to clear these below cost.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSo they did have a practical reason for doing it, it just wasn’t to make a great bike.
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSometimes life isn’t about efficiency.
Both. Heavy, needlessly complex, trying to solve a problem no one had, expensive. They had an EV bike that also sold poorly.
This is more about compliance for Japanese grants than sales.
30 years from now, people will buy them for YouTube channels but Kawasaki had to clear these below cost.
So they did have a practical reason for doing it, it just wasn’t to make a great bike.
Sometimes life isn’t about efficiency.