Project outline

Foldable Electric Scooter

Submitter

Hans Boës, Postfossile Mobile Pablo Calderon, BuntesRad

www.postfossilemobile.de www.buntesrad.de

Alternative vehicle for urban mobility

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Project goal

80% of all car journeys in the cities do not go beyond 6 km. On average 1.1 people are transported. Only

in every 10th car sits a passenger. Vehicles for the city must not necessary have a high range and many

seats.

In an effort to use alternative fuels in conventional vehicles the Auto industry encounters its limits. The

vehicles are just too heavy to efficiently move people through the city. To move only one person (ca. 75

kg) with a briefcase ( 25 kg) a vehicle of more than one ton is usually necessary. In modern electric

battery driven vehicles this is taken to the extremes, as they often weigh more than 2 tons with almost half

a ton of batteries.

Bicycle technology does the same – it can transport a person with a bag - with 20 kg of vehicle weight.

Bicycle construction is lightweight constrction and therefore a better basis for a new post-fossil mobility

better suited for the creation of new vehicles for sustainable urban transport.

The idea

The idea is to develop a folding scooter, which optimally fits to the needs of modern sustainable urban

lifestyle.

For these criteria, we have developed a folding scooter with an integrated electric drive which will serve

most of the mobility needs of a city dweller with about 1% of the energy of a car. By combining an electric

motor with a sensor a smooth drive is achieved. This is locomotion with minimal physical effort.

The folding scooter takes very little space when folded up and is therefore optimal in combination with

public transport. The outstanding feature of our scooter design: that it can be rolled in the collapsed state

and it functions as shopping trolley.

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Electric scooter in the unfolded state

Electric scooter in the folded state - rollable like a shopping trolley

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Summary of the marketing potential

Target group are all people who are looking for solutions to their everyday mobility, that want to stop using

a car for their everyday mobility needs.

The market potential is enormous! In the cities, people increasingly are looking for

alternatives to the automobile. Sales of new vehicles in the automotive industry has stagnated in

Europe for many years and is partly already declining. At the same time the sales figures of bikes and

especially of electrically assisted bicycles (Pedelecs – Pedal Assisted Bikes) in the last years has risen

enormously. Since 2010, sales of Pedelecs in Germany has more than doubled.

The problem of Bikes and Pedelecs in urban mobility is that they are not perfect for the combination with

public transport. This problem is solved by our new development: foldable electric scooter.

When the scooter is collapsed it can be rolled like a shopping trolley and by that is space-saving in public

transport or in the shopping center and extremely flexible on the street. At the same time ithe scooter

serves as a shopping basket. The user can thus use the scooter for his everyday shopping on the way

home from work.

Solar energy could be charging the batteries while the scooter is parking outside

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Competitive Advantages

• Compact

• Light weight

• Inexpensive

• Energy efficient

• Space-saving

• Use of solar energy possible

Our Prototype:

Contact:

AG Kick-E

Lobeckstr. 30-35, 10969 Berlin

+ 49- (0) 30-859 79 440

+49 - (0) 152-31 76 88 76

info@postfossilemobile.de

© AG Kick-E 11/2015 (Hans Boës, Pablo Calderon)

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