busy city roads. “You’ve got Uber and Grab these days [for easy travelling around the city],” says Larissa Tan, CEO of the Singaporean electric mobility firm Vanda Electrics, which invented Motochimp. “But you rarely look at the things that are going on around you. We wanted to make city commute more personal.”
The whimsical Motochimp may soon be a common sight on Singapore’s roads. Vanda Electrics, the homegrown Singapore mobility company that builds the electric bike, is also producing a truck and a hypercar. CEO Larissa Tan talks about the company’s evolution.
SINGAPORE (Mar 19): In the compound of a white industrial building at Seletar Aerospace Heights, as aeroplanes take off in the distant background, a Vanda Electrics employee is taking an electric bike that looks way too small for him for a test ride. But looks can be deceiving. The tiny bike, named Motochimp, can go as fast as 40kph and is relatively stable over bends, making it ideal on busy city roads.
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