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    4 months ago

    If all you need is to grab your groceries etc from the next village, then yes it looks like it could do that.

    This is exactly the kind of usages I imagine the market target is. Namely I believe it’s :

    • NOT for going from a city proper to another, e.g NOT to go from Rennes to Paris where a “big” car or train would do, even less going further
    • NOT for going within a city, e.g Rennes, where public transport is rather well connected

    but rather, as you suggest, going from one small town to another, say 50km radius or less. It’s while one lives in the country side to go to the farmer market on Thursday. It’s to go from and to work from the suburb, without proper bus, even less tram, to work downtown, etc.

    I imagine it’s basically where most people who wouldn’t feel “adventurous” enough to use an electric bike, due to the bad weather or workload, could use something just a big bigger.