Partly because it doesn't factor in the capital costs properly. To get a fuller picture costs need to be calculated over many years.
Also, it doesn't take account of the benefits - improved health, cleaner air, quicker movement of people, happiness etc.
In message <v5hsb0$28j5d$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 21:05:52 on Wed, 26 Jun
2024, Jeff Layman snipped-for-privacy@>> In message <v5hm7k$28j5d$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 19:21:40 on Wed, 26 JunThat's the edge of a corner case. Many are depot-charged or have battery swaps, and hiring one overnight to charge (using what, they don't get hired out with chargers) would cost a fortune in hire fees.
And your scenario above doesn't seem to involve "charging at home" anyway, so a red herring.
Just to requote you from above: "Do people take the hired ones home?"
You didn't mention charging, only taking them home. I think that we both agree hired scooters can't be charged at home.
In message <v5mt9e$3aq96$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 18:52:46 on Fri, 28 Jun
2024, Jeff Layman snipped-for-privacy@>> In message <v5hsb0$28j5d$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 21:05:52 on Wed, 26 JunThat's because thr thread is all about a scooter being charged at home.
Its been the theme of the thread.
Fair enough, but I was trying to unpick whether or not the fire was plausibly a legal hired scooter, or a non-road-legal owned one.
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