· City Commuting
· Commuting with Platform Scooters
· Costs To Charge A Scooter
· Electric Bike Benefits
· Electric Bike Positive Points
· Electric Bike Uses
· Electric scooters - Green
· Electric Scooters & Commuting
· Electric vs Gas scooters
· Gas versus Electric Scooters
· Light Electric Vehicles
· Lightweight Scooters
· Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
· One Person Cars
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A Light Electric Vehicle, also known as LEV, is an excellent alternative
to using your automobile for running errands. LEVs range in size,
starting out as electric scooters that are compact enough after folded to
neatly slide under the bed or fit under the car or bus seat, to actual
one-person cars that can be driven on the freeway in the HOV lanes and a
number of options in between.
LEVs are ideal for point-to-point transportation for a single person with
a small amount of cargo. Additionally, LEVs run at speeds that can match
various situations and preferences and the costs are low to moderate. For
most people, the majority of errands run are 10 miles or less from home.
These errands might be running to the local retail store to grab a few
items, the nearby convenience store for a bag of ice and a gallon of milk,
the library to check out a couple of books, to picking up donuts on
Saturday morning. No matter what type of errand you find yourself doing,
the LEV is the perfect solution.
LEVs range from $70 to several thousand and provide the advantage of a car
without the expense of gas, maintenance, or the fuel emissions adding to
air pollution. While you will probably still need your car for the longer
distance trips, or trips that require serious cargo space, using an
electric scooter, bike, or one-person car, can save you enough money to
make a difference. Not only are LEVs cost effective, convenient, and
favorable when it comes to pollution, LEVs are fun and provide a sense of
freedom not found with a car. Best of all, LEVs can go just about
anywhere. They can weave through congested traffic, be carried on public
transportation, and be folded up and carried into class or the store.
Do not limit thinking to the present, instead, consider how an LEV might
benefit your life in future situations. Even if an LEV does not match
your current lifestyle, it might in the future. Perhaps you have a
teenager or grown child that could get tremendous benefit from an LEV.
Maybe you have a close friend that can no longer drive a car but still
wants to get back and forth to the neighbor's house. You might have an
elderly parent living in an assisted living situation that wants to go to
another building to meet a friend but has no way of getting there. An LEV
would be the ideal gift. With an LEV, there are no reasons whatsoever for
not getting around to conduct errands or visit with friends.
With such a reasonable cost, the LEV will pay for itself in a short time.
Not only will you get around easier, but you are also investing into
something that will help your community to be a healthier, sustainable
future. To give you an idea of the speeds of LEVs, consider the following
options. Keep in mind these are estimated figures. These numbers could
change depending on the current circumstances:
Electric scooter - 10 to 15 miles per hour
Electric bicycle 12 to 20 miles per hour
Electric tricycle 10 miles per hour
Electric motor-scooter and motorcycle 20 to 45 miles per hour
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) 20 to 100 miles per hour
Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEV) 25 miles per hour
Commuters, which are one-person cars, 40 to 70 miles per hour
Electric Pedi-cabs (rickshaws) 10 to 20 miles per hour
Power-Assist Wheelchair 7 miles per hour
Electric Go-Karts 5 to 25 miles per hour
Utility / Cargo Vehicles 10 to 40 miles per hour
LEV kits 20 to 60 miles per hour
As you can see, LEV encompasses a number or electric options for
transportation. With approximately 80% of a city's total energy being
consumed by automobiles, just imagine how much could be saved if more
people would consider the alternative LEV.
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