e-Jalopy Greenwheel by MTB Cycletech with technology from MIT (Source: MTB Cycletech Website)

Usually I don’t write about products. But today I’ll make an exception: In today’s Spiegel Online was an article on an interesting US-Swiss Cooperation. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) worked with the Swiss company MTB Cycletech. The result of the cooperation is a e-Bicycle called e-Jalopy Greenwheel. 

There are several interesting features on that bicycle:

• Internet and Social Media integration through a smartphone
• Sensors integrated in the handlebar for carbon monoxide, respirable dust, and pollen
• Routing optimized for low traffic, pollution, uphill grade
• Detection of friends on their bikes in the surrounding
• Feedback of road condition, pot holes etc. to the city’s highway department
• Competition with other bikers
• Information for rider on gasoline and cost saved
• Hub drive with a hub integrated 36V, 5Ah Lithium-Battery
• Electric motor inside the hub with 250 W and a torque of 30 Nm

The electro-bicycle will ship in 2012 and the price quoted in the article is EUR 3050.-

Make sure to wear a helmet when accepting friendship requests from nearby riders.

MTB Cycletech Company Logo

Image via Wikipedia

Quoted article

• Mein Fahrrad hat jetzt Internet (Spiegel Online)