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Self-balancing unicycles at 'Paris sans Voiture' (Paris without cars) in 2015 . A personal transporter (also powered transporter, [1] electric rideable, personal light electric vehicle, personal mobility device, etc.) is any of a class of compact, mostly recent (21st century), motorised micromobility vehicle for transporting an individual at speeds that do not normally exceed 25 km/h (16 mph).
Sinclair intended it to prove the viability of electric personal transport; the hope was that, just as Sinclair had found with home computers like the hugely successful ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, an affordable electric vehicle could unleash pent-up demand for a market that did not previously exist. [25]
GreenPower was incorporated in Canada in 2010 to manufacture affordable electric buses and vans. [6] In 2014, GreenPower launched an EV350 model, a forty-foot, all-electric transit bus combining electric drive and battery technologies with a lightweight chassis and low-floor body.
Canoo was founded in 2017 by a group of auto industry veterans who wanted to build an affordable electric vehicle for young professionals. The idea was to build a “skateboard” chassis that ...
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Another possibility is forms of personal transport such as the electric skateboard/mountainboard, electric kick scooter, or personal transporters, such as self-balancing unicycles (i.e. Segway PT and others), which could serve as an alternative to cars and bicycles if they prove to be socially accepted. [1]
Ninebot, a Beijing-based transportation robotics startup and a rival of Segway Inc., acquired Segway Inc. in April 2015, having raised $80M from Xiaomi and Sequoia Capital. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The acquisition came months after the U.S. International Trade Commission agreed to investigate Segway Inc.'s claim that Ninebot and other companies were ...