From toy to transport, the trend is for electric scooters to take to the road

The “last mile” is a difficult travel problem for most people today, and bicycle sharing has taken the domestic market by storm, relying on the two weapons of green travel and the “last mile”. Now, with the normalisation of the epidemic and the green concept gaining popularity, the “last mile” bicycle sharing has gradually become unavailable.

“Electric scooters are an inevitable choice to complete the short transport business”, someone kept mentioning this. But until now, electric scooters have always been a kind of toy, not an important part of transportation, which is always a piece of mind for those who want to end the “last mile” dilemma through electric scooters.

Toys? Tools!

Among the different transport trips, we generally consider: less than 2 km as micro-transport, 2-20 km as short transport, 20-50 as feeder transport and 50-500 km which is long distance transport. Scooters are actually at the top of the list of micro-transport trips.

Many commuters have more or less a company or home that is not next to a bus or metro station. Every time they go to work or after work they often have to walk for ten to fifteen minutes, especially after a long day’s exertion, the long walk is even more exhausting, and there may be no embarrassment of sharing electric cars, this situation is perfect for electric scooters.

The last and most important point is that there is no big technical barrier to electric scooters, and under the strong supply chain system in China, any company can produce them under a brand name. People have formed the mindset of “scooters = junk products”.

However, in the last two years, electric scooters have gradually come onto the right track and a series of good products have emerged. The government is also hoping to accelerate the road time for electric scooters, both in terms of policy and corporate efforts. The standard will further specify the requirements for the structure, electrical safety, mechanical safety, components and environmental adaptability performance of electric scooters and the corresponding test methods, in order to improve the overall quality level of electric scooters.

In any case, this will have a rather positive effect on guiding the industry to a standardised, orderly and healthy development, quickly curbing low-quality competition in the market and encouraging the development of highly skilled and empowered enterprises, while also filling the long-standing regulatory gap for electric scooters and building public confidence.

I believe that with the introduction of the new regulations, this new mode of transport will fill the “last mile” gap, and we will of course bring consumers happier electric scooters.