Have you ever had a moment where it feels like all the skills you’ve been developing have been leading you to do one specific thing? That appears to be how Dat Bike, Vietnam’s first electric bike startup, began. As the story goes, founder and CEO Son Nguyen first started building on bikes while he was working as a Silicon Valley software engineer. Then, he saw a need back home in Vietnam—and he put all his knowledge in multiple areas to work to found Dat Bike.
As you may or may not be aware, motorbikes are a major form of transportation throughout Southeast Asia. Over 80 percent of households throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam have some type of two-wheeled vehicle—but they’re mostly combustion-powered. Climate change is a real thing, and as nations race to mitigate the damage by strictly curtailing emissions, the switch to EVs is on the rise. That’s exactly where Dat Bike, which was founded in 2018, comes into play.
