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http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/lit-motors-aev-gets-chinese-knockoff/
Lit Motors is readying its auto-balancing two-wheeler as a Chinese
challenger appears
June 18, 2016 Albert Khoury
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lit motors aev gets chinese knockoff
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It’s been nearly five years since Lit Motors unveiled its C-1
Auto-Balancing
Electric Vehicle (AEV), which was slated to go on sale in 2013. The
San
Francisco-based company has yet to put it into production, and now
one
Chinese company is taking advantage of the delay.
The lightweight C–1 commuter is laid out like a motorcycle, but Lit
Motors
promises a greater degree of safety. The vehicle’s gyroscopic
stability
technology keeps it from tipping over, and an early video even showed
a
dramatization of it recovering after being struck by a car.
Over 1,000 people have placed reservations for a C-1, but they’re
going to
have to wait a while to take delivery. Elektrek reports that after
receiving
funding from Mark Pincus, co-founder and CEO at Zynga, and Larry
Page,
co-founder of Google and CEO of Alphabet, Lit Motors is looking for
more
money. In a recent conference, Kim said that with $20 million,
production
can commence in about 24 months.
Lit Motors CEO Danny Kim composed a letter to hopeful customers this
week,
updating them on the stages of progress. “In addition to developing
EP-5,
we
unlocked the doors to our storage facility and revived our beloved
prototype
EP-4 for dynamics testing,” Kim stated. “After installing a new
custom
battery pack, we are rediscovering all of the elegant, innovative
solutions
we made to this piece of engineering/design history.”
Kim also mentioned that the company will be offering test drives in
San
Francisco for those who pre-ordered a vehicle.
Chinese companies have come under fire many times (with little
repercussion
in many cases) for blatantly ripping off vehicle designs from heavy
hitters
such as BMW, Mercedes, and Rolls Royce. This is apparently not
limited to
four-wheel transport, as Beijing-based Lingyun Intelligent Technology
is
developing its own gyroscopically balanced two-wheeler.
Though a little healthy competition can be a good thing, you can’t
deny the
striking similarities between startup LIT’s (even the acronym raises
suspicion) vehicle and Lit Motors’ AEV. The video below shows the
single
seater in question as well as a two seater, which were displayed at
the
recent Beijing Auto Show:
Lingyun reported a “USD 8-digit Series A funding round” from
“Beijing-based
angel investment fund Geek Bang, China Broadband Capital, Sequoia
Capital
China, ZhenFund and Beijing-based private equity fund Hillhouse
Capital
Management.”
As is the usual case with these types of knockoffs, the original
should be
a
better machine. Lit Motors predicts a 150-mile range on a 10kWh
battery
pack
with a top speed of 100 mph, while Lingyun’s concept should get 62
miles on
a 3kWh pack and hit 62 mph.
Lingyun has not announced any pricing, but Lit Motors places a tag of
$24,000. This is higher than earlier estimates, which were quoted as
low as
$16,000.
[© digitaltrends.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lit_Motors
Lit Motors Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that designs
two-wheeled
vehicles, including ... In 2011 the company announced plans for a
first
small production run in 2013 ... "It will take a 'baby elephant' to
knock
over this bike" ...
http://litmotors.com/
...
[video dated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0m-cUxMcJw
Lit Motors unveils all-electric, fully enclosed motorcycle
SmartPlanetCBS's channel Sep 12, 2011
Lit Motors CEO Daniel Kim wants to reinvent the motorcycle as we know
it
today. His idea? To design and manufacture a fully enclosed,
two-wheeled
motorcycle that runs purely on electric. SmartPlanet gets an
exclusive
first
look at the C1-concept vehicle and its patented gyroscopic stability
technology that helps prevent it from tipping over.
]
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