When Seb Inglis-Jones and Will Stirrup, the co-founders of British electric motorcycle start-up Maeving, found themselves in China on business, they remarked at how beautifully silent the mass of scooters lining up at traffic lights were.
"We knew there and then that the future of urban mobility had to be electric and it had to be powered by battery packs that were easily removed and conveniently charged, rather than relying on a public network or trailing awkward wires," Will explains at the launch of Maeving’s latest bike, the RM1S.
