By Augustus on
March 12, 2010Posted in: energy, future, mobility, personal, technologyTags: design, electric bike, emission, hmk 561, ralf kittmann, trends 
I’m a minimalist. I don’t need a lot of stuff. But somehow minimalistic designs like this turn me into a materialist. The HMK 516 electric motorbike by German designer Ralf Kittmann will turn anyone a materialist I guess. It’s just one of those things you wish you owned. The design is amazing, it’s zero emission and the carbon fibre frame actually functions as the elctricity conductor. So no more power cables (if there’s one thing minimalists hate, it’s cables). It has four wheels, no gears, and an advanced breaking mechanism. And ofcourse.. it’s a prototype.
via EcoFriend
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