Design
The Electric Bicycle of the Future Looks a Lot Like One From the 1800s
The Germans have dragged the velocipede into the modern age of plastics, and it actually looks quite rideable.
As we're told from an early age, history has a tendency to repeat itself, and that's happening right now in a weird way with bicycle technology. First, have a look at these creaky old velocipedes illustrated in F.A. Brockhaus's 1887 literary masterpiece, Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon:
Now feast your eyes on this high-tech electric bicycle being developed by international chemical conglomerate BASF and DING3000, a design firm from Hanover, Germany: