The Boped Proof of Concept seeks to create a fully functional demonstrator vehicle for a new and innovative omni-category lightweight e-motorcycle.

Aiming to enable the niche production of highly optimised vehicles for specific use-cases: the Boped project is a response to the new era of e-mobility tearing apart the rulebook on vehicle categories and capabilities.

The Boped Proof of Concept showcases UK niche design and engineering at its best: identifying new vehicle opportunities based on the latest technological progress, and offering a better user experience in response.

This project will produce a static demonstrator 16 Tonne rigid delivery vehicle with a low-floor, providing direct access for unloading from the truck to the footpath. Reducing the access height to the load space from a typical 1200mm to just 300mm will be achieved using a radical patent-protected drive system with an e-motor mounted remote from the wheel, driving a gear train in the suspension arm and a double epicyclic reduction at the wheelhead. This solution offers a low floor truck with adequate clearance to load trolleys or pallets between the wheelboxes at the floor height lower than a van.

Quattro Plant are leading developers in the field of up-cycled off-highway vehicles converting internal combustion engine machines to battery powertrains. This funding opportunity allows our R&D department to take what is a concept vehicle to become a technical demonstrator. These vehicles will directly match their ICE equivalents in performance and duty cycle but have zero tailpipe emissions.

These vehicles also work at significant noise and vibration reductions, making them ideally placed for urban environments and decreasing the long term effects caused by noise and vibration not only to operators but all surrounding site staff and visitors.