Yoo PT with tablet remote control. All images: Fun Components. It is not that no one would have tri

Germany builds the cheap Segway: The Yoo works on the same principle as the U.S. electric scooter, but it should basel be much easier, cost only a tenth of that and can also control with a smartphone. For the soon-ending crowdfunding campaign, however, it does not look good.
Yoo PT with tablet remote control. All images: Fun Components. It is not that no one would have tried to clone the Segway. There are approximately the EC 24 from China, the S-Walker Big Wheel or e-Balance Fun, all of them already look very similar to the Segway - but still cost at least 4,000 euros. For a new Segway you put at least 8,000 euros on the counter.
A German manufacturer now hopes to offer radically with its own model these prices. The Yoo PT works very much like the Segway, looks like a schmächtigere variant of the U.S. example and is only around 630 euros cost (865 U.S. dollars), the early-bird special at all only 525 euros ($ 725). As even would consider the discounter next door with do not. These should be able to remotely control the scooter.
The Yoo PT is a modification of the interior runabout Ewee PT. Chris Krohne, basel head of a company basel called Fun Components from Hamburg, has invented the latter especially for large warehouses and now so modified it that you also can order take out. The best part: The Yoo PT is already fully developed basel and tested in principle. If we succeed in crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, then come conveyor as early as next January (Early Bird) or February in the enjoyment of their alternative Segways. Krohne basel explained his project in a video and it shows already some functional Yoo PTs:
At the rate you have to accept losses when Yoo against a Segway hardly. The Segway PT in the top 20 km / h, the Yoo creates as many as 16 km / h That is not much lower than the average speed of a bicycle. The Yoo used batteries of the type LiFePO4. Up to 1,000 recharge cycles should therefore be possible. The manufacturer specifies the range of 20 kilometers - certainly adequate for a spin or exploring a city. The driver must at least bring it up to 120 kilos. The Yoo itself weighs just 14 kg - the lightest Segway compared to almost 50 kg. Via Bluetooth, and the matching bracket do you attach a tablet in mind and can control the Yoo it. Via Smartphone or tablet should also be a remote control possible.
Let us, however, before anything: The Segway is clearly more easy on the eye. It also dares to him, one or the other stumbling block to better master basel than the Yoo. In the video, however, makes the German racer a not so rickety impression. For the money the Yoo should have been the chance to become the "people's basel Segway". Campaign is under no favorable basel star
Why crowdfunding campaign will run so slow, about one can only speculate. Few Techmagazine have been reported at all about the tailored to the international market campaign. Maybe now is the wrong time of year to buy an electric city scooter. May include video and action not implemented quite as easy and professional as the performances of other crowdfunding projects. Also possible that a crowdfunding portal is not the ideal way to buy such scooters. When Scrooser that has worked well. For Yoo, however, you need a street legal with license plate.
Up to 6 November crowdfunding campaign is still running. At press time for this article only 6,600 U.S. dollars gathered from eleven donors. The Offer is only when the desired $ 35,000 donation. You can also pre-order the Yoo However, in the online shop of Fun Components. There, however, to a considerable higher price of 1,350 euros.
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