FTN Motion's electric ride
New Zealand isn't exactly famous for producing automotive brands, but FTN Motion is trying to change that.
In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, the company’s co-founders Luke Sinclair and Kendall Bristow recount how a backyard BMX hack led to them creating one of the country's most distinctive electric vehicle startups.
That was almost a decade ago, when two mechanical engineering graduates from Waikato University strapped a motor and battery onto a BMX bike in Pukekohe, before electric motorcycles were even a mainstream concept.
That scrappy experiment sparked an idea: a new…
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