Urban Mobility
Oversubscribed by over 200%, raised over €3 million on Crowdfunding Seedrs. When Amsterdam-based electric scooter start-up Bolt Mobility set out to raise money via equity crowdfunding to make ‘the Dutch Tesla on two wheels’, it asked the public for 1.5 million euros. But over 2,000 investors across the United Kingdom and the Netherlands gave it double that amount when its
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Momentum Electric, a London-based electric bicycle company has just launched the most powerful legal electric bike, VIT-S, on crowdfunding campaign site Kickstarter. PRNewswire/ — VIT-S is the most powerful electric bike with a maximum power of 700W and 95Nm of torque and meets EU and US rated power requirements of 250W and 350W. It has a range of up to 160km on a single charge. The motor on VIT-S is the result
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Social marketplace for bicycle sharing, Cycle.Land, has successfully secured its initial £100,000 funding target on Seedrs. The platform launched its equity crowdfunding campaign earlier this month seeking the funds to make its debut in five additional cities across the UK, which are Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and London. Cycle.Land received support from Oxford University Innovation Incubator in March 2016 and launched in
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After eBike, Investors Pile Money Into Sondors Electric Car. After an electrifying reception to its electric bike crowdfunding campaign last year, Sondors is now on track for another successful fund-raising drive for what it calls the “most attractive, affordable electric car ever”. It’s been three weeks since the company’s founder, Storm Sondors, rolled out a crowdfunding effort to make the Sondors Electric Car,
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Bike-sharing company Cycle.land has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign as it gears up to expand in five UK cities. The social marketplace is hoping to raise a minimum investment of £100,000 through Seedrs in return for a 6 per cent equity stake, and has already exceeded 60 per cent of its target. Cycle.land’s platform allows UK members and international travellers
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If ‘Sondors’ rings a bell to you, it is probably because you’ve heard of their electric bike. The Sondors Electric Bike campaign was one of the most successful projects on Indiegogo ever. It raised over $6 million from 15,000 backers and they actually shipped the product – which is not always a given with these crowdfunding projects. We can understand why
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Sono Motors have designed a self-chargeable battery-electric car named Sion that uses integrated photovoltaic panels on the body of the vehicle to charge the battery during the day. To raise funds to produce prototypes for trail runs and crash testing, the Munich-based startup turned to the online Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. Supporters came through, and the goal of reaching $167,000 (€150,000) was
Read moreOne of America’s oldest and most historic highways may soon become the first to get embedded solar panels. Missouri’s state transportation department hopes to add photovoltaic pavers to a section of the famous Route 66 by the end of this year. There is no indication of how long the stretch of solar-paved road will be, though, or how much power
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