About
A project born from a bicycle commute
Not a car is a young French project whose mission is to reinvent the urban vehicle for safer, more pleasant and more sustainable mobility.
The origin
The idea came to Henri in 2022, while he was looking for a way to get around Paris without the jams and without risking his life on a bike. He wanted a vehicle able to filter like a bike and park like a bike, but closed and protected like a car.
Finding nothing that truly matched, he started drawing a solution (being a mechanical engineer helps) and then modelling it in CAD. Encouraging feedback from friends and colleagues launched the project.
The mission
Reinvent the urban vehicle to make city travel safer and greener. Neither quite a car, nor quite a bike: an intermediate vehicle, designed for real daily trips.
Today
The concept and the modelling are done. A running prototype is being prepared. We are looking for partners to speed up this phase.