An Unassuming Electric Vehicle

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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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July 12th, 2013 12

Photo by George Schnakenberg

Photo by Lars Krüger

Photo by George Schnakenberg

Photo by Lars Krüger

With the goal of illustrating “the simplicity that alternative energy vehicles could embody,” George Schnakenberg curated and built The Sleeper Bike, an electric motor-assisted bicycle that also sports a stylish look. The San Francisco-based design director handmade the leather battery bag and retrofitted the bike frame with a Hill Topper electric bike kit from Clean Republic. According to George, “the high torque motor assists the user up any hill San Francisco can dish out.”

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An Unassuming Electric Vehicle

By Matt Richardson