Posts Tagged by e-bike design
Pi Mobility – An E-bike Design with — Get This — Nothing Wrong!
| September 3, 2011 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
One of the lessons we learn as we go through life is how much tougher things actually are than they initially appear. I was a reasonably athletic person as a young man, and I thought surfing might come easy. Wrong. Designing electric transportation might be an example of a subject that would certainly be a piece of cake. What’s so hard? You have a battery pack and an electric motor. It has one moving part. Well…., no.
As you check out this electric bicycle, the Pi Cycle by Pi Mobility, think about a few of the design ideas that went into it. While you’re doing that, think about all the ways this could be done wrong; i.e., the thousands of different ways that E-bikes can be made too heavy, too expensive, uncomfortable, dorky-looking, prone to failure, requiring constant upkeep, hard or pricey to repair, requiring hard-to-source parts, easy for thieves to disassemble and steal, quick to discharge, slow to charge, dangerous, dirty, counter-intuitive, or unergonomic.
That’s the beauty of the Pi-Cycle. Nothing’s wrong! It’s the perfect design. When I met these folks at this year’s Clean Business Investment Summit, I knew I had a winner on my hands. And when I had lunch with CEO Marcus Hays at his factory in Sausilito (Northern California) last week, I knew I was in the presence of one of the true greats in this exciting niche space. He’s been hard at work creating the perfect e-bike design for over a decade. And it shows.
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Unique E-bike Design Has Interesting Business Model
| August 7, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
I believe it won’t be long until the EMCycle, a unique E-bike design, is offered onto the market. In this recent episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report, company’s CEO Michael Scholey explains the market and the business model.
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Unique E-bike Design Appeals to Investors
| August 5, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
For better or worse, I’ve advertised my willingness to review business plans in the renewables and electric transportation space — and to provide a comment without cost or obbligation. This, as you can only imagine, as landed some pretty strange ideas in my inbox.
Having said that, I believe that EMCycle, with its great new Ebike design, holds fantastic appeal to investors. CEO Michael Scholey agrees, and explains why from his perspective.
