Students at the University of Bristol have invented an electric e-trailer that they hope will reduce millions of car journeys to the supermarket. The trailer can be attached to a bike or scooter, then collected from the user's home.
Developed by a group of five students under the name SLANT, it has now won £10,000 funding from the University of Bristol’s Innovation start-up incubator Runway.
The e-trailer is the brainchild of Innovations Master’s students, Tarun George Maddila, Artemis Fragkopoulos, Nigel Deshpande, Louis Cocking and Sam Bell. The tap-to-rent invention would be unlocked with a debit and credit card before being loaded to take the shopping home before leaving it outside for a SLANT employee to return to the supermarket.
