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Pioneering Electric Bike Car, the ELF, Set for Comeback

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Remember the ELF? It was one of the first ever electric bike cars to actually reach production. Nearly a thousand of the hand-built three-wheeled electric vehicles were delivered between 2013 and 2019, when an unfortunate bankruptcy seemed to mark a regrettable end to the world’s first production electric bike car.

But just like any good comeback story, it turned out that the last chapter had yet to be written.

The world of micromobility has long been a wild west of innovative designs, spanning everything from e-bikes and e-scooters to self-balancing electric unicycles and more. The proliferation of small, inexpensive electric motors and batteries has allowed companies to experiment with new designs without the restraints of the same massively capital-intensive development cycles found in the automotive industry.

That’s exactly how the ELF got its start, with inventor Rob Cotter founding the company Organic Transit to produce and deliver the three-wheeled vehicle.