ReCAP-HVT Covid19 and Transport Research Fund

Affordable, smart, and locally serviceable battery system and infrastructure for e-mobility transport for low-income countries to ensure access to essential services, transporting key workers and logistics for key freight such as PPE, medicine and food during COVID-19 pandemic (2020)

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic had major implications for mobility and connectivity, as well as cumulative impacts on the basic infrastructure systems that keep regions, markets and supply chains going.

Mobility was a crucial part of the response to the pandemic, not just to curb its spread but also to rekindle economic activity and keep lower income countries shielded from its immediate and long-term impacts.

Alp developed the following solutions to support urban micro-mobility in lower income countries affected by Covid-19:

• Providing a locally serviceable M-BRIC battery system that uses low-cost and long-lasting li-ion battery cells

• Providing rugged cargo e-bikes to transport goods with a cargo load of up to 100 kg that are designed to be very affordable and easily maintainable

• Smartphone and Internet of Things based monitoring, logistics and servicing technologies to ensure effective usage, high uptime and low cost to create and sustain local jobs in a circular economical way