And all the while, nothing is done to get old 2-stroke mopeds of the road in Europe. It’s such a low hanging fruit to get those hyper polluters out of cities but in an individualistic society, personal cult status seems more important than common health.
The problem is that they are not cost competitive at the time of sales and the type of people who buy those are not exactly the smartest when it comes to total cost of ownership calculation.
Over time an electric version would be much cheaper (a few hundred kilometers depending on electricity price) but it's also not as convenient/capable/performant so it's a not exactly an easy sell to the target customer.
I do agree that they are highly annoying but the reality is that they are still in use because there is no real equivalency in the electric world.
