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viet_us · 04-13-2024

Take a look at the VinFast DrgnFly (what is with the missing vowels in brand and model names these days — is there a shortage of them?), which the company just announced as being available in the US soon. It’s a scrambler-ish setup which VinFast describes as “neo-retro,” featuring a 750W rear hub motor, a beefy frame with moto-style handlebars, and which is purported to be “a connected and smart electric bike,” mostly because it has… wait for it… an app.

Now take another — closer — look at the outrageously priced ($2800!) electric bike and compare it to Super73’s (also high priced) Z-series of e-bikes, and notice how incredibly near the DrgnFly is to a carbon copy of those. Uncanny, am I right? I’m not sure how or why VinFast decided to almost blatantly rip off the design of another company and market it as something new, but this sort of behavior seems to be one of the new themes in micromobility. I mean, sure, don’t reinvent the wheel and all of that, and yes, there are only so many ways to design and build bicycle-ish two-wheelers, and there’s nothing new under the sun, but surely someone in the design department at VinFast is guilty of phoning it in with the DrgnFly.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/11...its-copypasta/

04-13-2024	#2
viet_us R3 Hảo Kiếm Khách Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 463 Thanks: 336 Thanked 117 Times in 76 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 45 Post(s) Rep Power: 18	Take a look at the VinFast DrgnFly (what is with the missing vowels in brand and model names these days — is there a shortage of them?), which the company just announced as being available in the US soon. It’s a scrambler-ish setup which VinFast describes as “neo-retro,” featuring a 750W rear hub motor, a beefy frame with moto-style handlebars, and which is purported to be “a connected and smart electric bike,” mostly because it has… wait for it… an app. Now take another — closer — look at the outrageously priced ($2800!) electric bike and compare it to Super73’s (also high priced) Z-series of e-bikes, and notice how incredibly near the DrgnFly is to a carbon copy of those. Uncanny, am I right? I’m not sure how or why VinFast decided to almost blatantly rip off the design of another company and market it as something new, but this sort of behavior seems to be one of the new themes in micromobility. I mean, sure, don’t reinvent the wheel and all of that, and yes, there are only so many ways to design and build bicycle-ish two-wheelers, and there’s nothing new under the sun, but surely someone in the design department at VinFast is guilty of phoning it in with the DrgnFly. https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/11...its-copypasta/ Last edited by viet_us; 04-13-2024 at 23:40.