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by bipson 1797 days ago
Wow, the hoops you have to jump through to find a price!

5k or 5.5k, depending on variant.

Although to be practicable (not a hobby), you will have to add quite a few "extras".

But not that bad actually! Makes me wonder how it is built.

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5k?! That's seriously low. Other velomobiles (going by velomobiel.nl) aren't even ebikes and still go for at least 8k (or 6.6k without VAT to be fair).

That's an exciting development, hopefully it's not vaporware.

It has a serial hybrid drivetrain: you charge the battery with your pedals. This is inefficient, naturally, but they claim it's far easier to make, which I tend to believe. But the idea of all of my hard-won watts getting wasted by the second law of thermodynamics is just too much to bear. If I'm dropping 5K on a bike it had better have a drivetrain that just sings when you step on it.
For me (on mobile) it said right on the homepage. And then after loading a few megabytes of data a cookie wall popped up so I guess they need consent for stuff I don't want...
> With +3100 pre-orders, expected delivery for new pre-orders is 2023.