Hello

My name is Mikael Kjellman, I like outdoor adventure sports and work as a design engineer. I really like to bike, but where I Iive in Sweden, the weather is not always very bicycle-friendly. So I designed and built a four-wheeled bike with full fabric body to keep dry and warm in all-weathers. 

I have driven it to work every day for a year now and it has proven to be a very practical and comfortable little vehicle. It is a fun vehicle to drive and I really like to build things. But the big reason for me has been the environmental benefits that these vehicles could have if they were made more popular.

I plan to develop a kit based on my prototype, intended for home builders and small pro-builders. It is to design and start production of this kit, I seek your funding's.

Visit mypodride.com for all the latest information!

Presentation

PodRide is a velomobile that is meant to be a practical every day vehicle.
It has approximately the same seating position and seat height as a small car, allowing easy access and good visibility in traffic. It has four wheels to be narrow enough for bicycle paths but still be stable in the curves. It has a full waterproof body to keep you warm and dry in any weather, heated windshield, soft seat with back support, air suspension and studded tires in winter. A small trunk for your shopping bags and a tow bar for a bike trailer when you want to bring your kids.

The electric motor and control system are from a standard e-bike system and should make it a street legal bike in many countries. And may then be operated on bicycle paths and without a drivers license.

DEC 2016 Update:  Please click here to see an update concerning pricing, availability, legal matters, etc

Technical data:

Bicycle-Cars are practical, good for your health, cheap to run, good for the environment and fun to drive. They require no new and advanced technology to work and they would not cost much if they were mass-produced. Many other bicycle-cars have been available on the market for many years but they are still for some reason, an almost unknown vehicle. I think my more car-like bicycle-car concept will appeal to many more people than the low streamlined tricycles that are available today. I hope that by building and running practical, fun and good looking bicycle-cars like PodRide, we can get bicycle-cars to become a popular and mass-produced vehicle.

Visit mypodride.com for all the latest information!

PodRide in the news:

Reaching: 10 000
Plan one is to make drawings and building instructions of the existing prototype.
Requires: that a designer puts 2-3 months of work on the project.

Reaching: 30 000
Plan two is to make key parts available such as wheels and drive shafts which are difficult to manufacture yourself.
Requires: more design work, find and buy parts, order and test parts and probably buy batches of some parts.

Reaching: 50 000
Plan three is to make a complete kit with all the parts and materials needed.
Requires: finding manufacturers for all parts, production molds, test build kits and build infrastructure to pack and ship kits.

Reaching: 100 000
Plan four is to make an easy to build complete kit, no fabrication needed (like a IKEA Furniture).
Requires: redesign of many parts and details, molds and manufacturing tools and more infrastructure for pre-assembly, quality control, pack and ship kits, a lot of test building of the kits and making good instructions.

Reaching: 200 000  or more
Plan five is to also offer completed kits and start developing a longer version with a small rear seats for children, dogs or more cargo