PROJECTS

Diffusion of E-Bikes

PROJECT TYPE

Innovation – Develops and brings to market climate-relevant knowledge, services and products

LOCATION

Pan European, coordinated from Switzerland

START DATE
January 2014
LEAD PARTNER

ElectricFeel Mobility Systems GmbH

PROJECT MANAGER

Moritz Meenen

THEME

Urban Transitions

PARTNERS
South Pole Carbon
Municipality of Castellon/Valencia 

E-Bikes are a game-changer for person transportation: they offer highly flexible, energy-efficient mobility for commuting and leisure that unlocks the benefits of electric mobility at low cost.

This project demonstrates the integration of E-Bikes with bike sharing by providing a networked, intelligent E-Bike Transportation System. The scheme will be set up as a “Living Lab” with ElectricFeel’s innovative GPS-based analytics solution and aims to demonstrate the substitution of car commutes with E-Bikes. The results of the Living Lab will be used in assessing how such a system can be implemented in cities with pre-existing bike sharing systems, with two cities of the Climate-KIC regional network.

The project partners will dive into complex problems from charging of the E-Bike batteries, to real-time financing mechanisms, to the smart redistribution of the bikes, all aiming to find a scalable business model for E-Bike-Sharing.