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143: The incredible economics of Last Mile Micromobility Delivery with Adam Barmby, founder of EAV


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This week Oliver interviews Adam Barmby from EAV, the electric cargo bike manufacturer based in the UK.

When Amazon launched their 'micromobility hub' in the UK recently, an EAV bike was the pictured bike used in promotional material for the announcement.

Micromobility for freight hasn’t been discussed a lot on the podcast, and it was really exciting to unpack the implications of Micromobility and see how it conforms to the thesis that Horace and Oliver have been weighing out of the last couple of years.

It is especially exciting to hear that EAV is fundamentally changing the business model of last mile delivery, where interestingly more than half of the cost of delivery is incurred. Adam was part of the Micromobility Accelerate pitch contest that in the recent Micromobility Europe conference in June.

Specifically they tackle:

  • The background for EAV and how it came to be founded
  • What EAV builds, and why it matters impact of cargo vans in cities
  • Their traction to date including recent business development deals and the sales pipeline to operators working for large ecommerce platforms.
  • The fundraising journey so far
  • See more of what Adam is doing within the micromobillity industry here.

    You can view the EAV website here

    Micromobility America conference coming up on the 15th and 16th of September in the Bay Area. We will have over 1000 guests from hundreds of companies talking about the future of Micromobility and how it can simultaneously help us with climate change while, disrupting the urban transport economics of cities. It’s going to be a wonderful reunion for the industry to all get together with incredible vehicles, including the Nimbus which Oliver covered in episode 141, as well as the new autonomous bike from Weel which we will be covering on a future podcast , as well as a whole heap of other really cool product announcements. Learn more and get tickets here.

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