Generative Design for Step Change in Sustainable Urban Mobility

我们相信，城市交通的未来是清洁、健康的，并与您永远在一起。我们正在创造一款电动自行车，它在室内就像滚筒一样容易，有空间容纳你需要携带的任何东西，它会立即打开，准备骑行，发出令人放心的“叮当声”。它平放在墙上，你可以把它带到任何地方，而不用担心存储或被盗。我们正在使用人工智能(AI)来创造这种愿景。人工智能让我们可以优化机制，使自行车更紧凑，更容易折叠。人工智能还允许我们创建高效的轻量级结构。在世界领先的航空航天专家的指导下，我们正在开发自己的机械设计新算法，同时使用最先进的生成性设计算法。与现有的折叠自行车相比，我们已经是现有折叠自行车的一半大小，折叠速度快20倍，折叠时更容易滚动。人工智能将允许我们在改善这一点的同时大幅减轻体重。BriefBike将抗击气候变化和呼吸系统疾病；帮助人们变得活跃；并使我们的城市成为社交网络的地方，在那里我们在人类层面上相互超越。仅靠电动汽车不能解决这些问题。我们需要找到更高效、更健康的方式在我们的城市中出行。我们相信BriefBike就是答案--你可以方便地随身携带一辆电动自行车，随时准备骑行。BriefBike使骑自行车出行变得更加实用和吸引人。与设计和制造专家合作，我们正在创造一系列演示自行车，我们可以用真实的用户进行测试。成千上万的人已经报名参加这些测试。尽管存在生活成本危机，或许正因为如此，人们仍在继续购买越来越多的自行车用于交通运输。目前，在欧洲每年销售的2000万辆自行车中，英国生产的不到0.5%，而且并不是所有的自行车都是在亚洲制造的，76%的自行车是在欧盟生产的。我们正在与英国的汽车和航空零部件制造商合作，使用现代、自动化和可扩展的方法生产我们的自行车。现在是英国领导增长最快的交通部门--电动自行车生产的时候了。

We believe the future of city transport is clean, healthy, and always with you. We're creating an e-bike that's as easy indoors as a roller case, with room for whatever you need to carry, and it flicks open instantly, ready to ride with a reassuring 'clunk'. It stores flat against a wall, and you can take it with you anywhere, never worrying about storage or theft.We're using artificial intelligence (AI) to create this vision. AI allows us to optimize mechanisms, making the bike more compact and easier to fold. AI also allows us to create highly efficient lightweight structures. We are developing our own novel algorithms for mechanism design while working with state-of-the-art generative design algorithms under the guidance of the world's leading aerospace experts.Compared to existing folding bikes, we're already half the size, 20x faster to fold, and far easier to roll along when folded. AI will allow us to improve on this while also drastically reducing weight.BriefBike will fight climate change and respiratory disease; help people get active; and make our cities socially connected places where we move past each other at a human level. Electric cars alone can't solve these problems. We need to find more efficient and healthy ways to move around our cities. We believe that BriefBike is the answer -- an e-bike you can conveniently keep with you, ready to ride whenever you feel like it.BriefBike makes it more practical and appealing to travel by bike. Working with experts in design and manufacturing, we're creating a series of demonstrator bikes that we can test with real users. Thousands of people have already signed up for these tests.Despite the cost of living crisis, or perhaps because of it, people continue to buy ever-more bikes for transport. Currently, the UK produces less than 0.5% of the 20 million bikes sold in Europe annually, and it's not that they're all made in Asia, 76% are produced in the EU. We're working with automotive and aerospace component manufacturers in the UK to produce our bikes using modern, automated and scalable methods. The time is right for the UK to lead the most rapidly growing transport sector -- e-bike production.