As with many companies, much of our supply chain comes from China and Taiwan. China has more electric vehicles on the road than any other nation on the planet, so it makes sense we would source a lot of electric components from there. For the past 10 years TSEV was contracted to live half-time or […]
Look in any major city that has share drop-scooters and the one thing all of these scooters have in common is they all use the same throttle maker. A lot of value in this throttle with screen printing and silicone insert Unlike e-bike thumb throttles mostly all made by Wuxing (Star Union) these new scooter […]
I began working with Bart Kylstra at Daedalus Wings (later to be named Rio Mobility) in early 2006. Bart had secured design funding from the NIH and NSF for multiple mobility project ideas that ranged from handcycles to lightweight power wheelchairs all the way up to a wheelchair lever drive system. Having some manufacturing and […]
The term “waterproof” is very open to interpretation much like the word “natural” is in the food industry. Luckily the IPXX rating system was created to set a standard for Ingress Protection. The first number 1-6 is the degree of protection against dust/ solids and the second number 1-8 is the degree of protection against […]
About 6 years ago, a prominent bicycle industry peer used to hold the number two rank behind Dahon for number of folding bikes shipped annually in the USA. His line consisted of factory direct, mid-tier, stylish folding bikes. Like many other niche bicycles, his main sales markets were in the “Keystone 6.” The Keystone 6 […]
