Stefan Gulas: Yes of course, that was one of the major things that I had in mind: to change the concept of a motorized vehicle. The concept of the motorized vehicle was developed in the outgoing 19th century, and the most important aspect back then was to rule over nature. I think now, 130 years later, dominating the nature is not the idea: we know that we have damaged it a lot and we need to go one step back. Ultimate domination in transport is going 100-150km/h and don't move. Before you had to move to get somewhere, and let alone the speed. But now you can get beyond that speed without doing anything. People don't want to change once they have accepted something, it took then quite a long time before they accepted the car over the carriage, it didn't came overnight. Because it established itself so well and worked so well, and the automotive and motorcycle industries are one of the biggest, nobody thought whether it was still adequate to have today, in 2009, something that comes from 1886. I think we have found a solution that is much more adequate for us today because it's a much more intense kind of travelling and going around, compared to a normal vehicle where you only passively steer but you don't actively do anything. If you compare the ebikes, electric bikes or motorcycles, to what we do, my best analogy would be back in 1886: it was a basically a motorized carriage, it wasn't a car yet, because that was the only four-wheel concept they knew then; so they replaced the horses by the engine and had a motorized carriage that eventually became a car. For me, this electric motorcycles only replace the gasoline engine by an electric engine and are a kind of motorized carriages. What we do is more like a car, because it's much more appropriate for the electric drive train: it is so different to the gasoline drive train that you have to develop a new concept; otherwise it is not working because it's developed for the gasoline engine, not for the electric engine.
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