Lightweight Electric Vehicles Podcasts

This week Oliver interviews Grace Rink, Chief Climate Officer for the City and County of Denver. Grace leads the Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency. She’s more well known in micromobility as the head of the Denver e-bike subsidy programme, which has captured the imagination of regulators all over the world with the latest prog…

This week Oliver interviews Melinda Hansen, founder of consulting firm Brightside and formerly the head of sustainability at Bird. They talk about the recent spate of Micromobility/ebike battery fires in New York and the response there as well as the wider conversation about equitable transport options, from her work with the equitable commute proj…

This week Oliver interviews Rickard Bröms from Sweden, who is the founder of Vässla, who won the Rider Choice Award at the recent 2023 Micromobility Riders Awards for best subscription company. We’ve been following along with what they’ve been doing for a while and really love the new pedal Ebike that they are bringing out, along with the standard …

This week we are releasing another talk from our recent Micromobility World - this one with Matthew Yglesias, pioneering political blogger and self-described "ebike dad," on why electric bikes and other small vehicles offer a compelling alternative to the solve the urban mobility dilemma. Matt has a wealth of knowledge about the interplay of politi…

This week on the podcast, we welcome back Horace for the first time in a while, to discuss the recent Mastodon storm on Apple's fabled car efforts and why they may fail, especially in the face of smaller, more modular vehicle solutions. We’ve linked to it below, but as quick context, the overall arc is that cars have a very long development and use…

This week Oliver interviews Levi Conlow who is the founder of Lectric Ebikes. This really is one of the most incredible stories of Micromobility in the last few years. Back in 2019 when they were just starting out, they started with an Ebike that they struggled to sell and no-one wanted to buy. Last year they had the most popular model of a bike in…

Sustainability Solutions Startups Featured Zumee; An alternative to Eco Friendly cars for short trips. Eco Vehicle Start-up - Designing a new range of low carbon vehicles, and transport solutions. A Net Zero Future Costs only 34p per day to run. Ditch your gym membership Ditch your car Charge your devices from energy stored on your commute Trips up…

This week we are releasing another episode from the Micromobility world catalogue – this one is a conversation between Gabe Klein, the first person to head the newly formed Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, and Julia Thayne, our Micromobility world Cohost. Gabes' job is to break down barriers to electrifying transportation. We’ve had him o…

10 Episodes in, what have we learned? What is Sustainability Why should we care about Sustainability Energy vs Pollution goals Individual Behaviors Should Change Think before you Click and Buy Using Home Assistant to power off devices and room lights Consciousness is key to Sustainability Non Profit Organization dedicated to spreading the message a…

This week, we are releasing one of the talks that we had at the recent Micromobility World event early this year . A discussion between Horace, Julia Thayne, one of our co hosts and the famed journalist Kara Swisher, this was a particularly energising section, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Specifically they tackle: - The intersection …

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Sustainability Solutions Startups Featured Low emissions, high efficiency bottle packaging. https://packamama.com/ Packamama | Packaging Protecting Mother Earth | Home of eco-flat wine bottles Low emissions, high efficiency bottle packaging. Operating in the commercial wines space. Fine wines need glass as O2 barrier. Save about 1kg of CO2 per case…

This week we're releasing another interview from Oliver's tour of micromobility companies in Southern California. This episode is with LeGrand Crewse, founder of Super73, on the growth of his very distinctive brand. Ever since Oliver first saw the first image of the electrified mini taco bike, he thought that Super73 were on to something - they cle…

Sustainability Solutions Startups Featured Unifi.id Making buildings more sustainable and efficient, whilst reducing overall costs and enhancing safety must be your priority. Focused on commercial real-estate. Responsible for 40% of CO2 emissions apparently? They help them manage the buildings more efficienctly. They use occupancy data and data ana…

Sustainability Solutions Startups Featured Wasteshark Cleaning up waterways with small unmanned robotic boats. Richard Hardiman Zero greenhouse emissions Ease to operate Low cost Reliable operation in salt, fresh and brackish water The “Waste Shark” is their first product. Hunts trash, e.g. biomass or plastics. A coffee-table sized robot. Stays on …

This week we're excited to bring you an interview from Oliver's recent tour of Southern California ahead of our Micromobility World online event. Oliver flew up from NZ to be with James, Julia and the team to produce the event but while he was there also took the chance to visit a whole heap of companies working in micromobility, either as vehicle …

Sustainability Solutions Startups Featured Limetrack Helping businesses track, report on and reduce food waste saving CO2 in the process by Andy King Homepage " Limetrack Brits consume about 1.5 teabags a day each (calc). Anaerobic digestion of 6 teabags could provide the energy to boil a cup of tea. Assuming 8 kWh / kg that’s 0.02 kWh energy (calc…

This week, Oliver interviews Dong Tran, founder of Ryvid, who make electric motorbikes in California. We’ve not covered heaps of motorbikes on the show so far, but that’s changing and we will have a bunch more next year. There’s a few really interesting things about Ryvid... Firstly, they’ve got a pretty unique new metal folding technique for frame…

Sustainability: The use of the ecosystem and ecosystem services in such a way as to allow a community or society to operate indefinitely resilient to external changes / shocks. Are cities an Environmental Contradiction? If you can’t recycle it then you it’s not sustainable. It’s really important to spread the word, increase consciousness. What’s th…

This week Oliver interviews Robin Eriksson from Cogo app which is the largest shared micromobility aggregator in Europe. Horace and Oliver have long had a theory that the world of micromobility will mature to be more like the public transport or airline industry over time. So it’s no surprise to us to see the rise of Cogo, which allows for discover…

What is Sustainability? able to be maintained at a certain rate or level. a societal goal that broadly aims for humans to safely co-exist on planet Earth over a long time. Development that meets the needs of the present without jeopardising the needs of those in the future. Sustainability: The use of the ecosystem and ecosystem services in such a w…

As we tick over from 2022 to 2023 we wanted to reshare our most popular episode from 2022. Our recent Spotify Wrapped and general analytics we get from our podcast platform gave us a few really cool stats about the podcast. We’re in the top 5% of followed and shared podcasts shared globally, with listeners from 61 countries and the majority of you …

This week Oliver interviews Danny Kim from Lit Motors. Danny is an OG of the micromobility space. He was thinking about the impact of electric and what it’d enable in vehicle architectures well before pretty much anybody else, evidenced by both the Kubo and their C1. The C1 is an enclosed gyro balanced electric motorbike that in our view has amazin…

This week Oliver interviews David Hansen from Weel Bike based in Seattle. Oliver has known David since the early days of Micromobility Industries, and indeed, Weel was one of the companies that the Microbility VC syndicate invested in back in 2019 when we were running it, so full disclosure, Oliver does have some skin in the game. We love what they…

This week Oliver got to interview Josh Hon from Tern bikes. If you’ve not come across the Tern brand before, they’re now a mid-size bike company, but have really found a strong niche providing high quality utility bikes like their best selling mid-drive short tail compact cargo bike the GSD. Tern is different from a lot of the other micromobility c…

Energy Sustainability Essentials: Why: confidence in ability to look after self. Water analogy . Height = voltage (V) Current = flow (A) Resistance is what it sounds like (Ohms) Charge is water (A) Energy is work (kWh = 3600KJ) Power is speed of work (W) AC = Alternating Current (think mains). DC = Direct Current (think batteries). Inverter convert…

This week Oliver interviews Mike Radenbaugh from RAD Power Bikes. RAD is the largest maker of the bikes in the US and this is a conversation we have wanted to have for a really long time. They discuss the new bike that they have just unveiled (skip ahead to around minute 13 if you want to know more about that!) They've been so excited to let you kn…

This Week Oliver interviews Murvah Iqbal from HIVED. Every so often we come across entrepreneurs where we come away thinking that they’re going to own a segment in a way that the incumbents are going to struggle to respond to. Murvah is one of those. We loved this interview. We got into the backstory for HIVED, what they’re building and why micro i…

This week Oliver interviews Horace about the talk he did at Micromobility America on the Total Addressable Market for micromobility, and the opportunity of the space. This should really be listened to in context of the 5 Billion Riders talk that Horace gave at the conference, which is now on Youtube. Here, we dig into Horace’s thought pattern and t…

How To Thrive 3 Days Without Power Energy is a daily issue in West Africa. Ben uses an solar generator. Remember load shedding importance. Candles are 50-100W of heat. Similar output to a human body. Heat a Terracotta pot? Albert Bates @peaksurfer lives in an eco village. Stack cooling. How about a living roof on the garages?? “Like learning to sai…

Ever since Oliver interviewed Karianne from Whee! earlier in the year, we’ve been excited to find more companies doing ebike subscription services to families. As Karianne says, there is a lot of money to be made by taking women and families seriously. So it was awesome to more recently discover the team at Lug and Carrie, based in Australia, who a…

This week Oliver speaks with Albin Wilson from Roam Motors, who are building a electric motorbike manufacturer and battery stack out of Kenya. Oliver was particularly struck when talking to Albin about the size of the opportunity and how conforming to the theory of micromobility what they’re doing is. We have long thought that the market for Microm…

Ideas Lookup Sawyer Squeeze filter. Care of heated water / Legionella. "Water re-use / conservation". "Not all water is waste". Black / grey / blue water. Keep a frozen bottle of water. "A cold water bottle". Micro start XP 1 battery. Workout to create power. Dynamos Hand cranked torches etc. Join SMART FEW https://www.clubhouse.com/club/smart-few?…

This week Oliver interviews Jonas Nyvang, CEO and founder of Stilride, who are building a very novel electric motorbike out of Sweden. We are always VERY interested in how micromobility will create and enable new production techniques for lightweight electric vehicles, and we think that what Stilride have built might offer something very interestin…

This week Oliver interviewed Sam Baker from Mobility Fund. We’ve had Sam on before, on episode 50, when he was still at Wunder Mobility, but since then, he’s headed off and is doing his own fund specifically focused on micromobility B2B businesses. He’s been a real advocate for the space and it was great to reconnect at Micromobility America and to…

This week Oliver interviews San Kim, founder and CEO of Swing Scooters, the largest shared micromobility operator in South Korea. South Korea is one of the worlds biggest shared micro markets and also one of the most underreported. This interview lifts the lid on the growth of the space and why the unique regulatory environment, high incomes, dense…

This week Oliver interviews James Gross, one of the co-founders of Micromobility Industries (which host this very podcast and the conference) to talk about the launch of Ride Review, the new source of reviews and ratings for all vehicles in the micromobility universe, from Onewheels to escooters/bikes, to golf carts and pods. As this space undergoe…

This week we release another session from Micromobility America – this one is the interview with Wayne Ting, CEO of Lime being interviewed by Julia Thayne Demourdaunt. Wayne was impassioned and his call more recognition of Micromobility and the role that it can play in our transport systems. Being in the audience It was electric to watch. We hope y…

This week we release a talk from our recent Micromobility America conference that we hosted in the Bay Area in mid September - this was one of the most popular panels of the event - the ‘Raising Money in Micromobility for Software VC’ panel that was run by our conference cohost, Julia Thayne Demourdant and featured a slew of the top mobility invest…

This week Oliver interviews Alper Oktem, CEO and founder of Marti, which as far as we can tell, is the largest Micromobility operator in Turkey. Oliver has long wanted to cover the Turkish Micromobility market, because it is such a large country, and they are proportionately so underserved. Turkey is proportionately underserved with transport optio…

This week Oliver interviews Julia Thayne Demordaunt, Principal of Urban Transformation at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Oliver is a massive fan of RMI - they’ve been advocated for market based climate solutions for years and have some of the most in depth research on the pathways required to help us meet our climate goals. Julia is leading the rese…

This week we share another interview from Micromobility Europe - This time it is the timeless interview of Jason Slaughter, creator of the largest urban planning YouTube Channel - Not Just Bikes being interviewed by Julia Thayne DeMourdant from the Rocky Mountain Institute, about why many cities suck, but Dutch cities don’t. Our host Oliver has oft…

This week Oliver is joined by Marcus Li the founder of Eli who are building a lightweight electric vehicle similar to a Smart car but a bit smaller and selling into the European and American markets. This is possibly one of the most interesting interviews Oliver has done with an early stage founder of a hardware company – They get really into the n…

This week Oliver interviews Kari Anne Solfjeld Eid from Whee! Whee is a cargo bike subscription service based in Oslo Norway. Kari Anne won this years inaugural Micromobility accelerate pitch competition that we had at the Micromobility Europe conference in June. She was selected by a group of judges as the best presenter on the day for a new Micro…

This podcast was first published on our sister podcast, Infinite Block This week we're releasing a talk from our recent Micromobility Europe Conference, with Horace interviewing Azeem Azhar. Azeem is one of the great thinkers in the space of smart cities, the importance of exponential technologies like Micromobility and how they relate to governanc…

This week Oliver interviews Adam Barmby from EAV, the electric cargo bike manufacturer based in the UK. When Amazon launched their 'micromobility hub' in the UK recently, an EAV bike was the pictured bike used in promotional material for the announcement. Micromobility for freight hasn’t been discussed a lot on the podcast, and it was really exciti…

This week is the release one of the episodes from recorded at the recent Micromobility Europe conference in Amsterdam in early June. This episode is the story of TIER with Lawrence Leucshner, and interviewed by Julia Thayne DeMordaunt from The Rocky Mountain Institute. TIER is now the worlds largest micromobility operator. Lawrence was a guest on t…

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This week we share an interview with Lihang Nong, CEO and founder of Nimbus. Nimbus recently went public with their vehicle, the Nimbus One, in a Techcrunch article. Oliver has been talking to Lihang for years and was excited to be able to interview him and bring a bit more of the story for you.By Oliver Bruce and Horace Dediu

This week Horace and Oliver were together in person for the first time in nearly two and a half years as they got ready for the Micromobility Europe conference. One of the things that they love to do every so often is to revisit the Micromobilty thesis. They want this to be the episode you share with everyone who is perhaps interested in what all t…