Gadgetory

what's the one thing you don't expect for to make a bike but it has four it has two experimental electric bikes here at Mobil or Congress 2015 let's take a look so for it has two electric bikes on show here they called the ford mode me and the mode pro this is the mode pro it's aimed more at businesses while the mode me is more for everyone to use so both bikes share the same basic electronics and because they're electric bikes what that means is when you're pedaling you'll get a little bit of extra thrust from the motors this is a 200 watt motor it's got a nine amp hour battery and in terms of how long that would actually last for tells me that a bare minimum you could get is one hour thirty and that's how much battery juice you would get if you were cycling continually uphill so another thing that's really cool about these bikes is that they've got loads and loads of app control and that's through Ford's mode link app and you can see your phone sits on top of the bike just here so this app lets you do loads of interesting stuff you can do things like turn the lights on and off you can turn the indicators on and off and you also get haptic feedback so that's a vibration through the actual bike handles when for example the navigation tells you that it's time for you to turn or when maybe a car gets too close to the back of the bike because there are proximity sensors in the rear so again this is all experimental for now but I really like the design I'd love to give these things a go so here's hoping that soon Ford turns them into something we can actually buy I'm Luke West we've seen it for much more checkout cnet.com slash