Van fietsen tot elektrische scooters, micro-mobiele voertuigen bieden een meer praktische en groenere manier om door steden te navigeren.

Bikes, scooters, shuttles and skateboards are taking over our cities. Small, light-weight, environmentally-friendly and easily shared, they are challenging the car’s long-held supremacy as the transport of choice. Welcome to the micromobility revolution.

“Transportation is the largest contributor to global warming, so to make an impact at least on that front we need to have much more rapid change. So the question was always “How do we accelerate this process?”,” Horace Dediu, a Technology Analyst who coined the term ‘micromobility’, tells the New Foundations podcast produced by The Economist Intelligence Unit and supported by Pictet.

Electric cars are one possible solution, but it is a slow one – to-date they amount to less than 3 per cent of the world’s fleet.  Countries in the Electric Vehicles Initiative, including the EU, US and China, have pledged that 30 per cent of their road vehicles will be electric by 2030. According to Dediu, it will take to the end of the century for penetration to reach 100 per cent.  

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