The RAPTURE E-Bike

RAPTURE 电动自行车

• 批准号: 78722
• 金额: $ 17.61万
• 依托单位: CROWNCRUISER MOTORS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=78722
• 关键词: RAPTURE; Bike

This project shall launch CrownCruiser Motors Ltd as a large scale ebike manufacturer. With the support of this grant, CrownCruiser has a **financial plan** that will establish them and **provide prolonged success**.We teamed up with PES Performance Ltd in 2019 to design a bike, the Rapture, that is a desirable alternative to motorised transport. **The Rapture turns heads**, its styling fits a modern futuristic city that has said goodbye to dirty congestion. Beneath its looks it is also a highly functional, **technologically advanced vehicle**. We have ignored the traditional double-diamond frame design and adopted a carbon-fibre monocoque with ample spacing for a large battery and numerous technological conveniences.As well as the Rapture, we have also designed a Swap and Go battery station. We plan on locating stations around cities so that users can return to **maximum charge in 12 seconds**.With help from the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership we want to set up an **Operations and Assembly Centre in Sheffield** to build, promote and sell the Rapture. This grant will allow us to commission the site and employ and train four technicians.We have a carbon fibre lay up facility under construction in Nigeria that shall produce the Rapture frames and ship them to Sheffield. This will differentiate our business from **the rest of the market that rely heavily on China**. This project will support **UK manufacturing and innovation in the composite vehicle market**. PES Performance Ltd shall complete the design of the Rapture and continue to support CrownCruiser as we innovate. We shall use a UK manufacturer to produce the tooling, the first three prototype bikes and train staff in UK. This project shall lay the foundations that will allow us to develop the CrownCruiser brand globally from our UK operations centre in Sheffield. In the medium term, our UK manufacturing partner will support to train staff in Nigeria. This will support our longer term plans, to strengthen trade between the UK and Nigeria and provide a **low cost development route for our UK partner companies** that is outside China.

该项目将启动CrownCruiser Motors Ltd作为大型电动自行车制造商。在这笔赠款的支持下，CrownCruiser有了一个**财务计划**，该计划将建立它们并**提供长期的成功**。我们在2019年与PES Performance Ltd合作设计了一款名为Rapture的自行车，这是一种可取的机动交通替代方案。**The Rapture让人目瞪口呆**，它的造型适合一个现代未来主义城市，它已经告别了肮脏的拥堵。在它的外表下，它也是一种高度功能的、**技术先进的**车辆。我们忽略了传统的双钻石框架设计，采用了碳纤维单壳结构，空间充足，可以容纳大型电池，技术上也很方便。除了Rapture，我们还设计了一个交换即走的电池站。我们计划在城市周围设置站点，以便用户可以在12秒内恢复**最高充电**。在谢菲尔德地区本地企业合作伙伴的帮助下，我们希望在谢菲尔德建立一个**运营和组装中心**，以建造、推广和销售Rapture。这笔赠款将使我们能够委托现场并雇用和培训四名技术人员。我们在尼日利亚有一个碳纤维铺设设施正在建设中，该设施将生产Rapture框架并将它们运往谢菲尔德。这将使我们的业务有别于**严重依赖中国的其他市场**。该项目将支持**英国在混合动力汽车市场的制造和创新**。PES Performance Ltd将完成Rapture的设计，并在我们创新的过程中继续支持CrownCruiser。我们将使用一家英国制造商来生产模具，前三辆原型自行车，并在英国培训员工。该项目将为我们在谢菲尔德的英国运营中心在全球范围内发展CrownCruiser品牌奠定基础。中期而言，我们的英国制造合作伙伴将支持在尼日利亚培训员工。这将支持我们的长期计划，加强英国和尼日利亚之间的贸易，并为我们的英国合作伙伴公司提供一条**低成本发展路线**，在中国之外。