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Porsche's new companies are all about electric bikes:
In the future, you may come across a lot more two-wheeled Porsches on the streets. The luxury automaker has launched two new joint ventures with Dutch company Ponooc Investment B.V., and they're both all about electric bikes. Porsche eBike Performance GmbH is based in Ottobrunn near Munich and will develop components, including motors and batteries. Anything it creates will then be used by P2 eBike GmbH, the second joint venture based in Stuttgart, to manufacture Porsche-branded e-bikes for consumers that the company plyans to launch starting in the middle of the decade.
Porsche is far from a newcomer in the e-bike space. In 2021, it debuted two electric bikes inspired by the Taycan and were made to complement the Cross Turismo, which has a rear carrier. Those bikes, however, along with their motors and gear shifting systems, were manufactured by Japanese bicycle industry giant Shimano. With one company developing parts and another working on the consumer bikes themselves, the upcoming products the joint ventures will release will be all (or at least mostly) Porsche.
The components business will use the e-bike drive systems develop by Fazua, a company Porsche recently acquired, as noted by Electrek. However, it will also develop e-bike systems under the Porsche brand name — it will even sell the technology it designs to other brands. As with anything Porsche, the bikes under the new ventures will most likely not come cheap: Its Taycan-inspired bikes, for instance, set buyers back at least $8,500 at launch, with the sports model selling for prices that start at $10,700.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 06 2022, @12:20AM (5 children)
All women have to do is go for the guy riding the bike instead of the guy driving a Porsche and soon every guy will be riding a bike.
Well now the decision is a lot easier as both guys are technically driving a Porsche!
(Score: 1, Troll) by legont on Saturday August 06 2022, @03:26AM (2 children)
Women are, by biological nature, are mostly conservatives. Just saying.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 06 2022, @05:47AM
Did you read that in Playa magazine?
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday August 07 2022, @04:18AM
Whoever marked me troll got to read some biology basics.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 06 2022, @09:56AM
If she's the sort who goes for the expensive car then pretty soon the porsche driver is riding the bike.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday August 06 2022, @10:01AM
I know this was a joke, but in reality, only men lacking self-respect, meaning and purpose in their life do this type of thing. The male-feminists, the narcissists, the people lacking what I would call a soul. A man makes his way in the world and women find ways to attach themselves to these men.