By the United States, you already, in many European countries, now they should belong to Germany soon to the streets: the electric scooter. An important political step away from the car?
The means of the future is mint green, weighs in at just over ten kilograms and accelerates in only a few seconds to as much as 20 miles per hour. Since the beginning of April, dozens of people around, flit in every day with the electric scooters on an industrial site in Cologne – still in test mode. First, you download the App of the operator and a scan of the QR Code of the scooter. Then the fun started can push off with the foot, right Gas, left brake.
Easy to handle on the Handlebar: the test electric scooter
“The scooter is emission free, it allows a flexible use, and fun to Drive,” says Bodo von Braunmühl, head of corporate communication of the E-scooter company animal, “the Scooter is intended as a complement to other transport options such as public transport”.
Providers such as the Berlin-based Start-Up company, animal tendons for the Germany rental been brought about. October 2018 launched the company in Vienna, meanwhile, the animal is in 20 countries in Europe on the market. A Euro the base price is, for each driven Minute, 15 cents to come. In Germany, where according to surveys, two out of three German citizens hold the scooter for a good addition to the German road, waving a giant business.
Climate protection as the main Argument
“The fixation on the car is gone, the self has viewed the ADAC, in the meantime,” explains von Braunmühl briskly, “now, we need to conduct together with the policy of a people – friendly city planning in the way with an infrastructure for people, not for cars”.
“In city planning have been made in the last 50 years, the cars in the center” – Bodo von Braunmühl
May the provider have caught for electrical scooter is exactly the right time for the launch in Germany: The transport is lagging behind in the much-discussed energy transition the most. 47 million passenger cars are registered in Germany, annually more than three million cars are sold new. The emissions of pollutants in transport are almost as high as in 1990. The aim is to reduce it to 40 percent by 2030, it is hard to create. Mobility in this country is still to put on the Diesel.
And every Friday, students go to the streets to demonstrate for climate protection. The E-scooter industry is to seize this Moment and for a rethinking of worry, in spite of the childhood disease, the scooter will go, often too quickly broken and not even a year. The cars are on pavement, in rain or snow almost unusable.
What time does the shift in Traffic?
In the case of Heiner Monheim, the proponents of a race-Roller-open doors. As the renowned transport researchers taught is still room for development at the University of Trier, was he just, at a stroke, 74 scooters for its students. “We are, then, for excursions on the road in column of dangers,” recalls Monheim with a Smile, “and then the police and said: ‘Hey came, but you must on the sidewalks!‘ And I just said: ‘This can’t be true. Should we go to the pedestrian Slalom?‘”
“We want supposedly less cars and build eight-lane highways. How does this fit together?” Heiner Monheim asks.
Heiner Monheim is now 73 years old, but his passion in the fight for a different transport policy and mobility in Germany is unbroken. “We need to go to less driving and less standing cars. The towns’re hungry, you want more Green and less sheet metal.” To rely on other means of locomotion, was as is only logical.
Magic Word Intermodality
E-to drive scooters on the bike paths and if there is none, on the road, in favour of the transport researchers. At the same time Monheim saves, but with criticism: “Germany is a country where the bike path is not the rule but rather the exception. And the bike paths that are currently available, are not halved walkways created.”
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Monheims Vision is called intermodality. The combination of different modes of transport mean. “I have always dreamed that every car series box is only of Association, but also two folding bikes in the trunk.” But Germany is, unfortunately, far from, to have such a creative industry.
Heiner Monheim to go. With his folding bike, he wants to make on the way to Bonn station and then the train to Trier. What is his assessment of the discussions of the E-scooter in Germany ? Many critics had warned in recent weeks against the increased risk of an accident. “We are wondering about how we put the scooter to the curb”, he shakes their heads in disbelief, “instead, we have to make, especially the speed issue with the car. But soon, the speech is sure to be of scooter hooligans.”
Germany is lagging behind European neighbours
The E-scooter company animal wants of such scenarios, do not be discouraged. “In Germany, is now being discussed even more thoroughly and for longer” pulls Bodo von Braunmühl, a comparison to Scandinavia or the Netherlands, where the shift in Traffic already was many decades ago, have been initiated.
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And what the Germans will say in 20 years? Are you thinking about the discussion on the electric scooter with a Laugh back? The press-Secretary of company animal is sure: “you will wonder at least about the excitement that went hand in hand with the introduction of the scooter!”