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Medium

November 2024

The Next Big Thing:
Lit Motors C-1, a Self-Balancing Gyroscope Car

 

Lit Motors attracted $1.21 million through crowdfunding efforts, indicating renewed interest and support for the self-balancing electric hybrid of car and motorcycle.

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KPTV Fox News 12

September 2024

Oregon seeing higher business growth than all other states, study shows

Lit Motors Founder/CEO Daniel Kim was featured on Fox News 12 in a segment highlighting business growth in Oregon over the past year. 

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Fararu

August 2024

This motorcycle maintains balance in any condition!

This amazing hybrid motorcycle is going to create a new model in urban transportation and attract a new generation of drivers.

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Taiwan News

July 2024

Light Electric Vehicle Market Share, Growth Rate, Upcoming Trends and Forecast to 2032

Lit Motors is listed as a major player in the growing global light electric vehicle market, which is anticipated to expand significantly by 2030.

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Dax Street

June 2024

Lit Motors C-1:
Reviving the AEV Concept for Future Mobility

Decades of innovation are about to hit the streets with the Lit Motors C-1, a revolutionary take on electric vehicles.

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VN Express

June 2024

Car-motorcycle hybrid defies gravity

Lit Motors' two-seater, half-motorcycle, half-car vehicle always maintains an upright position thanks to gyroscope technology, maximizing safety for the driver.

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Tuoitre

June 2024

Unique self-balancing electric vehicle: Small as a motorbike, safe as a car, won't flip over when hit

A gravity-defying self-balancing electric vehicle with cutting-edge technology is poised to redefine urban commuting.

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Sohuu Tritue

June 2024

Successful development of a gravity-defying hybrid car-motorcycle model

Lit Motors debuts C-1, a gyroscopic hybrid of car and motorcycle, offering gravity-defying stability and rapid charging for extended range.

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Faradeed

June 2024

This strange hybrid motorcycle is able to maintain balance in any situation

Lit Motors unveils the C-1, a hybrid electric motorcycle that combines the agility of motorcycles with the safety of cars, featuring groundbreaking auto-balancing technology.

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Autoevolution

June 2024

C-1 Is An Auto-Balance EV That's Half-Car, Half- Motorcycle, and All-Awesome

The C-1 from Lit Motors is an electric vehicle that combines features of both a motorcycle and a car, offering auto-balance technology for enhanced safety and efficiency.

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The Sun

June 2024

World’s first gravity-defying hybrid motorbike that never flips over with ultra-safe ‘magical’ tech

The SUN conducts an exclusive interview with Daniel Kim, the founder of Lit Motors AEV.

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Slash Gear

May 2024

Self Balancing Motorcycles: How they work

Lit Motors is taking preorders for its autonomous-balancing electric vehicle, promising motorcycle efficiency with car-like comfort and safety.

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DRONE 

April 2024

Lit Motors' AEV C-1 combines the strengths of cars and motorcycles to achieve comfort, safety, and efficiency

Lit Motors' AEV "C-1" combines the best of cars and motorcycles, achieving comfort, safety, and efficiency without sacrificing speed, performance, or cost.

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Electrify News

March 2024

Meet the New Self-Balancing, Fully-Enclosed Electric Motorcycle

Lit Motors has a WeFunder crowdfunding campaign to raise equity money right now, offering a piece of the company to investors. It’s already raised over $1.1 million dollars.

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Micromobility Industries December 2022

The Crazy Story of Self-Balancing Enclosed Motorbikes and Their Potential for Micromobility

Ride On! Podcast interviews Danny Kim, an OG of the micromobility space. Dig into the early days of Lit Motors, the promise and potential of gyro-balacing technology in car/vehicles​, and more.

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Forbes

February 2018

What Immobility Taught This Autos Startup CEO About Mobility

Lit Motors CEO, Danny Kim shares details on his motorcycle testing accident at Laguna Seca Raceways, his road to recovery and his experience with immobility.

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The Wall Street Journal

September 2016

Apple Looking to Bolster Car Project

Apple Looking to Bolster Car Project Apple held talks with Britain’s McLaren Technology, Electric vehicle maker Lit Motors.

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BBC

November 2014

Is Lit Motors’ C-1 the shape of city cars to come?

A California company believes conventional cars are too big and inefficient for urban commutes. Jack Stewart test drives their answer – a two-wheeler that won’t fall over...

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Bloomberg

March 2014

Studio Visit: Lit Motors' Daniel Kim Gives a Tour

Before we went into this we said, “Let’s try to not pull a Segway. Let’s not dump $40 million into technology and realize that there’s no market for it.”

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Forbes

March 2014

Two-Wheeled Electric Vehicle Builder Lit Motors Finds Funding From Mark Pincus And Kelly Slater

Lit Motors' much-hyped C-1 prototype lies in pieces in the back of the startup's South of Market offices in San Francisco. With green and red wires protruding and the doors taken off the frame, the enclosed, electric two-wheeled vehicle is a shell of what it was a year ago.

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TechCrunch 

January 2014

Lit Motors Kubo Cargo Scooter | CES 2014

Colleen Taylor learns more about the design and drive mechanics of Lit Motors new kubo cargo scooter at CES 2014.

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TechCrunch

December 2013

Meet Kubo, The Crowdfunded Electric Cargo Scooter Made By Lit Motors

Lit Motors, the electric car startup that launched last year with its first vehicle called the C1, has debuted another sleek-looking electricity-fueled vehicle called the Kubo.

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Wired

December 2013

Lit Motors' Kubo Scooter Is the Ultimate Urban Delivery Vehicle

Lit Motors is out with a new way to revolutionize schlepping your junk around town, and we got an exclusive crack at putting the Kubo through its paces.

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BBC 

July 2013

Electric scooter design that makes a hole lot of sense

Lit Motors, a small company based in San Francisco, California I profiled in my last article, believes it might have a solution.

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USA Today

June 2013

Change Agents: Daniel Kim lights up Lit Motors

“My end goal is to have a big, positive impact on the world in terms of carbon emissions and providing a safer and more enjoyable commuting experience,” says Kim.

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BBC

June 2013

Lit Motors: Super-shrinking the city car

Lit Motors' approach is different: shrink the car. Imagine if you could cut the size of a car in half, you could fit twice as many cars onto the streets, and into parking spaces

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BBC

March 2013

What If... We All Had A Car?

There are over a billion cars in the world today, and there could be as many as four billion by the middle of the century. So how will we keep the roads moving and prevent pollution rising?

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TechCrunch

February 2013

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TC Cribs: Lit Motors, Where Sleek Electric Cars (And More) Are Built From Scratch

We’re back with a brand new Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we go inside the gates of the hottest tech companies and get a grand tour of what the day-to-day work life is like — warts, perks, and all.

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Lean Startup

February 2013

2012 Lean Startup Conference

Daniel Kim presenting at the 2012 Lean Startup conference.

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Forbes

December 2012

Lit Motors And Its Convention-Defying Motorcycle

It’s a second summer day in October in San Francisco’s SOMA district and Daniel Kim is walking in a trance. As we wander and chat about his company...

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New York Times

October 2012 

Self-Balancing Bike Seeks Best of 2 Worlds

A motorcycle can be fun, but being in a downpour or an accident on one is not. A car is safer, but parking is annoying. What if you got rid of the bad parts of both?

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BBC

September 2012

Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups vie for attention

Designed to withstand the brute force of an impact with an SUV (sport utility vehicle), the C-1 is the world’s first two-wheeler stabilized by electronically-controlled gyroscopes that create over 1,000 pounds of torque...

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TechCrunch

September 2012

And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is… YourMechanic!

After nearly three days and plenty of pitches, our list of 30 hungry startups was trimmed down until there were only seven startups left standing: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors...

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TechCrunch

September 2012

Lit Motors will shake up the electric vehicle market with its two-wheeled, untippable C-1

The recent influx of both high- and low-end EVs and electric motorcycles have shown promise, but current battery technology is still limiting, and the cost of entry is far too high

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CNN

August 2012

Lit Motors' self-balancing electric motorcycle unveiled

Lit Motors' self-balancing electric motorcycle unveiled. CNN's Dan Simon reports.

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Der Spiegel

June 2012

Standhaft dank Kreiselkraft

Elektro-Roller könnten die Waffe der Wahl werden im Kampf gegen Verkehrskollaps in Mega-Citys. Wenn sie nur wetterfester und sicherer wären. Jetzt hat ein kalifornisches Unternehmen den Lit C-1 gezeigt. 

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CNET

May 2012

Lit Motors: C1 concept 
 

A closer look at the fully enclosed self-balancing electric vehicle from Lit Motors.

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Wired

May 2012

Exclusive: This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation

This is the gyro-stabilized, two wheeled future of transportation.

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