Company
DUDE, WHERE’S MY TERRAIN PROGRAMMABLE, HIGHWAY SPEED, PEDAL-ELECTRIC CAR?
My background is TV production and audio visual engineering. I’m a biker and used to be a sports car guy, (until I realized how pointless big, gas guzzling engines are). I got the EV bug, like a lot of people, got ambitious and won a grant to build a type of car that had never existed before and as it turned out:
It was hard.
Luckily, I found gifted and capable people to work with and in 2014, we completed our alpha prototype. We showed it to the world and for the next few years, we made progress in getting customer interest, building a website, patents, etc. Then in 2017, multiple family emergencies caused me to shutter the business. In 2021, seeing the tremendous growth in ebikes, EV’s and fitness tech, I decided to re-start the company. Since then, we have been repairing, reworking the prototype and redoing our business materials.
Didn’t John Lennon say something about life happening when you’re trying to build a hyper boosted, pedal-electric, terrain programmable EV?
Timeline
Team
RICH KRONFELD
FOUNDER – PRESIDENT
- Engineer Innovox Audio
- Awarded state grants for alpha prototype
- Producer of Emmy award winning children’s series on Peacock TV
- 10+ years experience in media/PR, science programming
JOSEPH LIKENS
CEO
- Founder – EV3; Electronic Vehicle component and systems development and manufacturing
- Founder – Kynnex, LLC; manufacturing supply chain and operations management
RYAN ANDERSON
COO
- Engineering lead at Minnetronix – medical device manufacturer to Medtronic
- BS Mechanical Engineering, MIT
- LEAN Manufacturing Specialist
MARK NEUBAUER
CHIEF ENGINEER
- Northern Power Products – Hybrid engine design engineer BS Automotive Engineering
- MS Manufacturing Engineering
KEN BRADLEY
BUSINESS CONSULTANT
- 20 years EV, solar, clean tech sales, marketing experience
- Business Development and Sales Expertise
The Team. And the Vision.
We are a group of believers. We believe in beauty of design, beauty of engineering, and power with purpose. We love bikes and cars and combine our love of both with passion for a cleaner, more sustainable future.
Thank You
I want to thank my wife, Robin for supporting me through the ups and downs of this endeavor, Lyon Smith for an amazing design and prototype, Eric Little and Thomas Marlowe for their hard work on my patents, Steve Castellotti for his technical assistance, Ryan Anderson for his operations, engineering, vehicle development skills and unending support, Mark Neubauer for his technical and automotive brilliance and dozens of Sundays in my garage, Drew Ryder for his advice, Rus Bockin for his bicycle knowledge, Matt Prader for his early help, St Could State U for their help in so many ways, Stew Roberts for his EV expertise and engineering my electrical system, Vedran Martinek for amazing new CAD designs, Dan Halpern for his early advice and help, and my kids for…well, being my kids who I love more than Chinese food.