5 A Bicycle for the Bicycle with Faraday's Adam Vollmer
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English - March 11, 2014 23:30 - 1 hour - 28.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDesign Arts Technology industrial design hardware kickstarter technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Adam Vollmer of Faraday Bikes joins Stephan Ango to explore the challenges of designing and manufacturing an electric bicycle.
I met Adam Vollmer, founder of Faraday Bikes a few months ago and was lucky enough to ride a prototype of their beautiful electric bicycle, the Faraday Porteur.
On the show we discuss turning what started as a side-project at IDEO into a Kickstarter campaign, and finally a fully-fledged, shipping product.
As you can imagine, it's a product that involves hundreds of parts, made all over the world. Adam and I dive deep into the challenges of sourcing parts, using tools such as Alibaba and working with a complex supply chain.
Faraday Bikes also made a recent appearance at CES 2014. We discuss the benefits of trade shows, Indiegogo's booth, and how this flows into their marketing strategy for 2014.
Additional Links
Steve Jobs' "Bicycle for the mind" (YouTube)
Safety bicycle (Wikipedia)
Michael Faraday (Wikipedia)
Oregon Manifest