Best Oliver Bruce and Horace Dediu Podcasts (2023)

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Laura Kavanagh, Commissioner of the NYC Fire Department on how they are fighting battery fires 35:50

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Laura Kavanagh was appointed Fire Commissioner by Mayor Eric Adams in October 2022. As Fire Commissioner, Kavanagh oversees the day-to-day operations of the largest fire department in the country, with more than 17,000 employees and a $2 billion budget. We're excited to have Laura Kavanagh on the show today to talk specifically about battery fires,…

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News: Bloomberg shows how micro is the mobility solution for climate and more | Interview: Oonee CEO Shabazz Stuart 37:51

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Win a Tenways CGO 600 Pro ($1,900 value)! Called "The Lightweight Champion" of electric bikes, the Tenways CGO600 Pro doesn't disappoint. Head on over to ridereview.com for your chance to win. https://ridereview.com/giveaway/win-a... We’re incredibly excited to introduce the first round of speakers joining us at Micromobility America in the SF Bay …

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NYC enforces traffic cameras but falls down on their eBike replacement project | New vehicle launches | Interview with Patrick Wirth at Baloise Group 1:01:51

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We’re incredibly excited to introduce the first round of speakers joining us at Micromobility America in the SF Bay Area this October! Manufacturers, operators, brands, policymakers, investors, media—and this is just the start. https://micromobility.io/events/micromobility-americaWe are giving away some GOFLUO gear. Leave a comment here and head on…

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Julie Vets of GOFLUO, no more ugly yellow vests! 32:20

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We are doing a GOFLUO giveaway, leave a comment here and enter to win at Ride Review: https://ridereview.com/giveaway/win-a-gofluo-bodyflower-and-bag Meet Julie Vets, Founder and CEO of GOLUO, https://gofluo.com/, and learn how she is inventing the category of high visibility gear for everyone that is moving. You can also see Julie present at Micro…

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Wombi Brings Subscription Cargo Ebikes to the USA 35:08

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James Gross interviews entrepreneur Dan Carr about the U.S. launch of Wombi, an all-inclusive electric cargo bike subscription, in Culver City and West LA: https://wombi.us/Wombi aims to encourage people in Los Angeles to drive less, be more active, and enjoy their city. They offer electric cargo bikes as an alternative to cars, addressing issues l…

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Onewheel Interview with Founder and CEO Kyle Doerksen, Vehicle Launches and more! 43:53

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Win a lectric XP 3.0, comment here and enter the contest here: https://ridereview.com/giveaway/lectric-xp-3-0-giveaway- We announced the Ride Expo in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 20th! Register now for a $10 ticket. https://lu.ma/yvv4158o Wondering where you can and can’t drive your new low-speed electric vehicle? GEM’s new app shows every…

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Why urbanists are wrong about AVs w/ Tesla critic Ed Niedermeyer 38:09

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Jame Gross interviews Edward Niedermeyer, the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. Nathan Robinson has suggested that there is "probably no greater expert on the career of Elon Musk and the development of Tesla [than Niedermeyer]." His insights regarding Tesla Autopilot in particular have been cited repeatedly. Chapters: 00:0…

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Ride On! #25: Meet the CEO of Waev: Keith Simon, win a Lectric Bike and more! 38:37

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Win a lectric XP 3.0, enter the contest here: https://ridereview.com/giveaway/lectric-xp-3-0-giveaway-We announced the Ride Expo in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 20th! Register now for a $10 ticket. https://lu.ma/yvv4158o Chapters: 00:00 Intro03:40 More consolidation coming to the world of shared micromobility?08:46 Trek or Giant to buy Van…

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Pod with Micah Toll: The New York Times attacks ebike riders and misses the story 20:32

2M ago20:32

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James Gross and Micah Toll discuss Micah's latest article on Electrek: The 'New York Times' attacks e-bikes while ignoring the real danger all around us The New York Times published a pair of articles this weekend highlighting the rising number of deaths of cyclists riding electric bikes. However, in one of the most impressive feats of victim-blami…

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Ride On! #24: Linus' new electric bikes | California wants an ebike license for kids | Lyft bails 49:35

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We announced the Ride Expo in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 20th! Register now for a $5 ticket. https://lu.ma/yvv4158o Ride On! is now in Audio! Subscribe to Ride On!: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ride-on-by-micromobility-industries/id1434457337 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1G2fPNzUw5mo5asaCoH7O0Chapters: …

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Small vehicles for the military? Paris fat shames cars | Meet the McLaren of Scooters 51:55

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We are giving away a Vela 2, comment on this video, subscribe and enter your email here: https://ridereview.com/giveaway/vela-2-giveway We announced the Ride Expo in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 20th! Register now for a $5 ticket. https://lu.ma/yvv4158o Ride On! is now in Audio! Subscribe to Ride On!: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple…

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Why did Vanmoof go under? SF city officials caught lying about traffic collision data, Vela 2 Giveaway and Eli Electric Interview with CEO Marcus Li 58:47

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We are giving away a Vela 2. To enter to win, subscribe to our channel, comment below, and submit your email here: https://ridereview.com/giveaway/vela-2-giveway Vanmoof goes Poof. Cult ebike brand VanMoof has paused sales and some of its top execs are departing or taking lower roles. The company has yet to release an official statement on the abru…

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192: Electrifying the workplace with Roman Meliska 40:22

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This week we release another session from the recent Micromobility Europe conference - this one on Electrifying the Workplace - e-bikes as an employee benefit, hosted by none other than podcast superfan and overall mensch Roman Meliska. Roman was joined on stage by folks from the Walmart, the European Cycling Federation, Safran and Zenride to talk …

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191: Ebike Revolution with Cannondale, Cowboy, Vanmoof, Ampler and Lekker 33:09

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This is this week we are releasing another session from the recent Micromobility Europe which we had in June. This one is the ebike revolution which was hosted by Micah Toll from Electrek who is in our minds one of the best micromobility journalists out there. Please go and check his stuff out if you haven’t already. He was joined on stage by forme…

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190: The exploding world of micromobility-first freight with Finmile CEO Rich Pleeth 48:04

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This week Oliver managed to catch up with Rich Pleeth while he was passing through London. Rich is the founder of Finmile, a micromobility first freight company in London using four wheeler cargo e-bikes to deliver for companies such as HelloFresh and some very large global companies that unfortunately we can’t name but who Oliver was very impresse…

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189: Global shared Scooter Operator CEO panel from Micromobility Europe 28:34

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This week we release another episode from the recent Micromobility Europe event. This one is the shared scooter CEO’s talking about the state of their business which was a very popular session on the Friday. Ben Hubbard From Zag Daily had the leaders from some of the top operators from all over the globe on the stage – we had Henri Moissinac, Dott …

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188: Founder Roundtable: The Rise of Subscription from Micromobility Europe 2023 27:20

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This week we are releasing a session from our recent Micromobility Europe show held in Amsterdam on June 8/9th. This one is the rise of the subscription panel that was hosted by Jon Woodruff from Twotone with some of the titans of the e-bike sharing world including Eric Quidwenus-Wahlforce, founder of Dance, Karianne Solfjed Eid, from Whee! and Ric…

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187: Spatial computing and what it means for micromobility with Horace Dediu 1:00:47

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This week we have been in Amsterdam at our Micromobility Europe conference and Oliver had the chance to sit down with Horace who had just flown in from seeing the Apple vision pro at the WWDC unveil. We have talked on the show for years about how augmented reality would benefit micromobility, and so we wanted to take this opportunity to unpack a li…

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186: The story of premium two wheeler Cake Motorbikes with founder Stefan Ytterborn 37:42

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This week Oliver interviewed Stefan Ytterborn, founder and CEO of Cake Motorcycles from Sweden. They’ve emerged as one of the worlds leading motorbike manufacturers, solidly occupying the premium end of the market with very Scandinavian designed versions of electric motorbikes, and a strong focus on both commuters as well as backcountry use cases. …

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185: Subscription-as-a-Service - unpacking a new micromobility business model with Micro OG and Tempo founder Michael Keating 53:40

4M ago53:40

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This week we release a discussion with Michael Keating that was recorded when Oliver was passing through San Francisco on the launch day of his new company Tempo. For those who are in the know, Michael Keating is an OG of the Micromobility space, having founded Scoot back in 2012, which was one of the first moped sharing companies before selling it…

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184: The story of Onyx Motorbikes with founder Tim Seward and CEO James Khatiblou 53:48

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We're really excited to share this episode with the team from Onyx Motorbikes who are based in Los Angeles. Oliver visited Onyx in Southern California in January as part of the So Cal Micromobility Tour. They are the winners of this years Rider's Choice Awards for Best Moped. It was great to hear about the story of how they got started and have man…

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183: Cool Californian Cruisers: the story of Electra Bikes with CEO Kevin Cox 31:53

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This week we release an episode from the SoCal tour that we did back in January, this time it is with Kevin Cox, the CEO of Electra Bikes, which was originally founded by Benno Banzinger who we have also had on the show earlier. Electra is the fifth largest event company in the US and have a real focus on making distinctive cruiser-style bikes, and…

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182: A microcar (some of the time!) - the story of City Transformer with founder Udi Meridor 54:43

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This week Oliver interviews Udi Meridor from City Transformer. You may have come across City Transformer as it was on the recent Top Gear episode of microcars in Paris. Obviously, we’ve done two microcar episodes week on week so this is an area that we're definitely thinking about, as are McKenzie who I had on the week prior talking about mini mobi…

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181: Building iconic micro-cars with Microlino founder, Oliver Ouboter 54:12

5M ago54:12

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This week Oliver interviews Oliver Ouboter, one of the founders of MicroLino, who are producing one of the most beautiful cars that we have seen in the neighbourhood electric vehicle space – the thing is an electric version of the iconic BMW Ysetta from the mid 1950s. We really loved this interview for a few reasons - firstly, because the operators…

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180: Exploring public-private Shared Micromobility with Caroline Sampanaro, head of micromobility and transit policy at Lyft 49:09

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This week Oliver interviews Caroline Sampanaro, Head of Micromobility and Transit Policy at Lyft, about her role and opportunities for micromobility to participate in conversations about better transport systems and cities. They also talk a lot about the shared business model, and why PPP feels like the most logical endpoint for a lot of the shared…

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179: Exploring the Future of Micromobility with Kersten Heineke, of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility 52:27

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This week Oliver interviews Kersten Heineke, a partner at McKinsey, and lead of the McKinsey Centre For Future Mobility, based in Germany. We discuss the role and scope of the Center for Future Mobility, the rising interest in micro vehicles, and the potential impact of mini-mobility on the transportation landscape. Kersten provides an extensive ov…

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178: Creating Premium Owned Scooters - the story of Apollo with founders Maciek Piskorz and Chris Heathcote-Rey 56:00

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We're really excited to bring this episode to you. Apollo Scooters are one of those companies that quietly works away in the background and ships without being loud and overly public about it – We have been following them since they first unveiled the Apollo Pro at Micromobility Europe last year. Last year, they shipped 30,000 scooters – which is a…

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177: Horace Dediu on the Next Billion Cars Podcast 1:02:18

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This week we chose to resyndicate a recent episode of a podcast called The Next Billion Seconds, for their series called The Next Billion Cars, where they look at the future of the transportation industry and how tech will help enable the next billion vehicles to get around. In this episode, Drew Smith interviews Horace, exploring the origins and f…

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176: The power and potential of E-bike subsidies with Grace Rink - Chief Climate Officer of Denver City 52:17

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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…

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175: Micromobility fires, standards and transport equity with Melinda Hanson 48:04

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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…

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174: Building award-winning e-moped and e-bike subscriptions in Sweden: Rickard Bröms of Vässla 54:04

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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 …

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173: The U.S politics of micromobility with Matt Yglesias and Julia Thayne DeMordaunt 56:15

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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…

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172: The Apple Car Conundrum with Horace Dediu 48:30

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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…

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171: Building the most popular ebike in America - The crazy story of Lectric Ebikes with founder Levi Conlow (also - launch of their XPedition cargo bike!) 53:53

7M ago53:53

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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…

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170: Talking micro EV’s with Gabe Klein, head of the US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation 23:31

8M ago23:31

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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…

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169: What Tech has got right and wrong about mobility with Kara Swisher, Horace Dediu and Julia Thayne 1:00:00

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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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168: The story of the distinctive E-bike - Super73 with founder LeGrand Crewse 47:27

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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…

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167: ‘Etility’ - what electric bikes offer with Benno Baenziger, the founder of Benno Bikes 51:30

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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 …

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166: Ryvid - an electric motorbikes for the masses - with founder Dong Tran 1:08:03

8M ago1:08:03

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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…

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165: The marketplace for mobility - the largest shared mobility aggregator app in Europe with Robin Eriksson from Cogo App 50:52

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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…

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164: What is Micromobility and why does it matter (2022 edition) Rerelease 1:24:55

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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 …

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163: The crazy story of self balancing enclosed motorbikes and their potential for micromobility - Danny Kim from Lit Motors 1:11:40

9M ago1:11:40

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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…

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162: A true smartphone on wheels? What happens when you think of bikes as computers with David Hansen of Weel. 1:00:18

9M ago1:00:18

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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…

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161: Building premium utility ebikes for families and more with Tern Team Captain Josh Hon 1:00:03

10M ago1:00:03

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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…

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160: The RAD world of Micromobility with Mike Radenbaugh, founder of Rad Power Bikes 46:53

10M ago46:53

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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…

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159: How Micromobility wins last mile package delivery with HIVED founder Murvah Iqbal 52:15

10M ago52:15

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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…

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158: 5 Billion Riders - Why Horace Dediu thinks micro will be the biggest transport story of the next 20 years. 56:40

10M ago56:40

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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…

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157: The biggest ecargo bike consumer subscription business in the world - Ben and Dan Carr from Lug and Carrie 1:00:18

11M ago1:00:18

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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…

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156: The inexorable rise of Micromobility in Kenya and West Africa - the story of Roam Motors with Albin Wilson 36:59

11M ago36:59

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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…

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155: Stilride's Metal Origami - The significance of new bike production methods with founder Jonas Nyvang 35:00

11M ago35:00

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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…

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