Canyon at it again

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Canyon just unveiled this crazy awesome electric pedal car and 2 new e-bikes

German manufacturer Canyon, one of the world’s leading direct-to-consumer bicycle companies, has just unveiled a pair of high-end electric bicycles...

electrek.co

 

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The ebike market is moving fast. I can only imagine what will be available in 5 years.

 

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What do you suppose that car will go for? $$$$$$

 

[FlatSix911]

Canyon just unveiled this crazy awesome electric pedal car and 2 new e-bikes

German manufacturer Canyon, one of the world’s leading direct-to-consumer bicycle companies, has just unveiled a pair of high-end electric bicycles...

electrek.co

I like their EBikes but love the pedal car! What a great conceptual design for sustainable transportation.

The design follows the concept of a laidback recumbent e-bike, yet offers four wheels like a quadricycle.
The 95 kg (209 lb) Canyon capsule concept electric pedal-car uses a fully sealed design to protect riders from the weather. As the company explains:

How do you bring total weather protection to an e-bike? This is the question our designers and engineers had to answer with the Future Mobility Concept. The solution is a totally-sealable passenger compartment surrounded by an innovative, panoramic capsule that strikes the perfect blend of form and function. When not sealed to protect against the elements, the capsule can be slid forward along two rails to open the cockpit up. This ‘open mode’ is great when the weather is hot or if the rider wants that fresh-breeze feeling that comes with driving a convertible. The capsule even has enough space behind the rider to seat a child, load luggage or pack up groceries for the ride home. The capsule can then be slid even further forward for easy entry and exit of the vehicle.

The unique vehicle uses side-stick steering, similar to a recumbent tricycle, and has a turning radius of 7 meters (23 feet). It even has an optional rear seat for carrying a tandem passenger, though the seat can also be replaced by cargo. The concept includes a large 2,000 Wh battery rated for 150 km (93 miles), though Canyon says that the range can be doubled with a second battery. And if you’ll be spending much time at the podbike’s top speed of 60 km/h (37 mph), then that second battery might be a good idea. In response to whether or not we’ll actually see a concept like this being produced by Canyon, the company provided this convenient non-answer:

At Canyon, we firmly believe that the future of our cities lies with new, clean forms of mobility: and we’re committed to contributing to their development. Currently, we are re-orienting ourselves in the area of City & Trekking bikes, and we will focus strongly on urban mobility in a broader sense in the future. In the coming years, we will launch more urban bicycle solutions, but the implementation of other concepts like this will also be intensified. The concept gives us a vision that we want to work toward — quickly.

 

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could you imagine the looks you'd get riding that down the bike path!

 

[FlatSix911]

What do you suppose that car will go for? $$$$$$

I would imagine that this bicycle-car hybrid could be the perfect commuter vehicle if the price is below $10k.

Ideally, it should be around $5 -6K with volume production in the future... very cool vehicles are coming!