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Swedish Plumbing Company Abandons Vans for Professional Ebikes
Stockholm, July 31st, 2023
Cyklande Rörmokaren is a plumbing company in #Stockholm,# Sweden. Their headquarters are in a former blacksmith forge in the oldest parts of Stockholm. They are an ambitious company that aim to soon grow to other cities like Gothenburg, Malmoe and Oslo. According to the founder Hugo Wolgers, their rapid growth can be attributed to his team of creative problem solvers. And one reason that these professional plumbers flock to his company, is the fact that they for the most part get to and from their work sites on bicycles and ebikes.
If you knew Swedish, you would already know this since the name of the company, Cyklande Rörmokaren, literally translates as “The Biking Plumber”. In the spirit of “right-sizing” picking the cleanest vehicle that gets the job done, any heavy materials are delivered in advance and then the plumbers and their tools arrive on their bikes. Hugo says “we got really tired of having to sit in traffic and we also realized that we could arrive both quicker and more environmentally friendly on a bike. That we are in continuous motion also means we arrive feeling more alert. Leaving the car behind benefits the customer, us and the environment.”
Finding the Perfect Ebike for Plumbing
Since the founding, the company has tested many brands of bicycles and electric bikes and have now zeroed in on their new main vehicle, the Keego Mobility KG 4. Built mainly to service delivery couriers with a low center of gravity, 65 kilos load capacity, 100 kilometres range and all sturdy components, the ebike also happens to be perfect for the plumbers and their tools.
“We tested the KG 4 for a couple of weeks. Turns out our toolboxes click in perfectly on the rear rack and if we need any other items they fit in the front box. We are now converting our fleet to KG 4s because of great handling, load capacity and low service and maintenance costs,” says Wolgers.
Wolgers then took a KG 4 on a 280 kilometer ride to the (relatively) nearby city of Motala to speak at a conference on using bikes in logistics. To get all the way and since he spent the night camping in the woods, he brought one extra set of fully charged batteries with him and also stopped for lunch at a restaurant where he could also get a quick charge.
Keego Mobility, Swede From Taiwan
As so many other bike companies, Keego Mobility hails from Taiwan, but Keego was co-founded by Swedish serial entrepreneur, Elias Ek, from the northern city of Sundsvall.
Ek moved from Sweden to the US in 1994 to study and then moved to Taiwan in 2000. He has founded several companies, but Keego was the first one to also set up an office in Sweden.
“We now run all of our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) operations from our office in Sweden,” says Ek. “For me it is really great to now have a professional connection to my home country. And on our way of helping all the world’s 30 million couriers to choose green and clean ebikes, we are proud of also working with Hugo and his fantastic plumbers.”
Couriers from companies like Uber Eats, Getir, Foodora, Foodpanda and many other leading delivery companies around the world are using their KG 4s in their daily deliveries.
Magnus Wall, Sales Director EMEA for Keego Mobility, has long experience in the bike industry. He adds, “by enabling thousands of delivery couriers and professional craftsmen to switch to strong, professional ebikes, we can save enormous amounts of carbon as well as cut down on noise pollution in our cities. For every 33 km we ride on a bike instead of in a van, we save 1 kg of carbon emissions, so the benefits are huge.”
Look out for the environmentally friendly plumbers on their blue Keego Mobility ebikes in Gamla Stan and other parts of Stockholm.
August 23rd—Meet Keego Mobility In Stockholm
If you are a Delivery Courier or otherwise interested in Delivery Ebikes and Sustainable Logistics, on August 23rd from 11 through 17 hours, you can come and test the KG 4 at Keego Mobility’s test event on Medborgarplatsen.
About Elias Ek
Elias Ek was born in Stockholm but grew up 400 kilometers north in Sundsvall, Sweden. He is a life-long entrepreneur who moved to the US to study in 1994 and immigrated to Taiwan in 2000.
In 2002 he co-founded B2B Marketing firm Enspyre which helps major international companies such as Oracle, eBay and Samsung connect with customers in Taiwan.
He is the author of the book How to Start a Business in Taiwan and for the last 8 years he has also been co-organizing Dragons’ Chamber, a pitch event for immigrant entrepreneurs in Taiwan.
These days he is an active angel investor with more than 10 active investments in companies such as Keego Mobility that makes delivery ebikes and Nimbnet which builds charging stations for heavy trucks in Sweden. He is burning for help the transport sector to switch to greener vehicles of the right size. He is also excited that he now has two companies with operations in Sweden so he has more reasons to visit Sweden and rediscover his old country from a business perspective.
About Cyklande Rörmokaren
Cyklande Rörmokaren is a is a plumber who performs all types of plumbing work. Our plumbers have extensive experience in all different types of jobs in plumbing, plumbing and pipe laying. We are firm believers in biking to the worksite for ours and the environments sake. More
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Keego Mobility is the leader in complete delivery ebike solutions. We enable Last Mile Delivery companies and their couriers to lower their total cost of ownership and environmental impact by using our IoT-connected delivery ebikes and fleet management system specifically designed and built for heavy, commercial use as a delivery vehicle. Other heavy users like police departments, crafts people and builders who needs a sturdy ebike have also purchased Keego Mobility ebikes. More …
