Make it easily replaceable with a special key that you give the juicers, like a wheel lock. The whole point of these things is to provide people with a clean method of inner city travel, having people drive around in large trucks to collect and then return all of these scooters seems to nullify that. With battery packs you could have some guy on a bike and a backpack running around instead to recharge the scooters
Everyone would have the same key, and all you would have to do would be buy one charge kit. Then you take the battery, the scooter loses it's GPS and it is untrackable. Sure, you could have a second permanent battery, but the complexity and cost starts adding up.
all of these services where you use your own vehicle and have to pay your own gas + maintenance is just preying on the fact that people have no clue what the actual cost of driving is
if anyone realized the true cost of how expensive it is to drive then none of these services would exist
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To get any economy of scale you need a truck and trailer, plus a place to store/charge them overnight. Kind of hard to have all that stuff logistically and afford to live inner city.
Make it easily replaceable with a special key that you give the juicers, like a wheel lock. The whole point of these things is to provide people with a clean method of inner city travel, having people drive around in large trucks to collect and then return all of these scooters seems to nullify that. With battery packs you could have some guy on a bike and a backpack running around instead to recharge the scooters
The whole point of these things is to make money for Lime Co. Who cares how much diesel I burn collecting and returning them.
This guy is a moron in this video. Why would you drive a total of 40 minutes doing this?
Driving 40 minutes is not an issue if you plan your route and your pickups accordingly. You should never drive 40 minutes for one scooter, but for 4+ sure. That’s $21, and in calculating expenses and the time it takes to load/unload the scooters, you’re looking at about $13-$15 an hour, roughly minimum wage.
If you can incorporate that time into your regular drives to and from the office (assuming you work downtown) that’s easy money.
One thought I had and I am wondering about is why Lime hasn't made a deal with the city to install charging posts in certain hotspots so people can just plug them in.
One thought I had and I am wondering about is why Lime hasn't made a deal with the city to install charging posts in certain hotspots so people can just plug them in.
Also, would anyone actually do it? I guess if you made it so that leaving them at one if those hotspots reduced your trip costs (like you got your $1 back from booking and only had to pay the $.30 per minute), but otherwise, people wouldn't bother, and would just leave them wherever's convenient for them.
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Ya, you would have to have a small incentive. I just don't see it working or being affordable. If the charger was built into the scooter it would help, but then it adds weight and cost.
What you should do to make money is get the app, pretend to be a charger and go to where the most valuable scooters are to film the fights and mayhem that might happen if two people arrive at the same time to collect the scooter. Then start up a youtube page called Sour Limes fight channel.
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Driving 40 minutes is not an issue if you plan your route and your pickups accordingly. You should never drive 40 minutes for one scooter, but for 4+ sure. That’s $21, and in calculating expenses and the time it takes to load/unload the scooters, you’re looking at about $13-$15 an hour, roughly minimum wage.
If you can incorporate that time into your regular drives to and from the office (assuming you work downtown) that’s easy money.
Why would someone who works downtown in an office waste their time on minimum wage #### work?
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It seems like there would be enough parking stalls with outlets that you could just move the scooter to some parking spot with an energized block heater outlet and do it there. Seems like a waste of time totake it all the way home or whatever.
