London Cycle Hire

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Charlie_L

Each model has a 62-mile range and airless tyres to prevent punctures, with bike batteries monitored remotely and swapped when charge is low.

With average journey <2miles that gives them a week or so between charges. They probably have a van carrying charged up batteries to swap when necessary.

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Chak in reply to @Charlie_L

Hot swapping seems to be the to-go techique.

There's a similar method run in China with scooters, whereby the user simply stops at random battery charging docks, scans their ID, and out pops a freshly charged battery to be swapped with your dead one. Done.

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