As president of the TWIKE Klub, one of my favorite responsibilities is organizing our annual general assembly. Finding the right location is always a bit of an adventure — it needs to comfortably fit up to 50 people, have some connection to sustainability, renewable energy, or ideally one of our own TWIKE pilots. Furthermore, it has to offer enough electricity to get all our TWIKEs fully charged and ready for the trip back home afterward. Our general assembly day usually kicks off with some relaxed catching up over coffee, then we spend a couple of hours exploring the venue. After […]
Post-Winter Plexi TLC
The plexiglass windshield typically is very scratched after a winter’s use with salt and grime being wiped away constantly. As I’ve done many times before, I wanted to start the warm weather season with a clear windscreen – If you want to know more about how to restore the plexiglass, please go to the in-depth entry I posted 7 years ago. The magic happens with around one hour of work and really brings the plexi back to its old, original glory and clarity. …and then, your TWIKE will be looking like new!
Early 2025 Black Forest ODT
One of my first little EV adventures of 2025 with the TW560 was a quick day trip to the Black Forest. If you’ve ever spent winter (October to March) in the lower parts of Switzerland, you know the struggle—weeks of thick, soupy fog that just doesn’t go away. After five sunless weeks, your brain starts to feel like it’s running in low-power mode. Luckily, the Black Forest is just around the corner from me—well, 40 minutes away—and since it climbs up to 1600 meters, it guarantees me seeing some sun! Climbing out of the grey and into a clear, sunny […]
Presentation Press coverage
As mentioned in this post, I was invited to speak about electric mobility before it went mainstream at an event. My presentation showed how we navigated public charging, upgrading our vehicles, traveling and how battery technology evolved during the past few years. Since there were some members of the press present, I’m happy to publish one of the accounts here.
Hello 2025
Besides building my new Type2 charging solution in December, my last few months were slow, filled with travel and, ultimately, with many discussions and meetings. I was offered a leadership role at a very large company in my previous industry, cyber security solutions and services. To make sure everyone involved – me, my peers and n-1’s – would be happy, I traveled extensively to meet them all and have frank conversations about goals and strategies. Happy to report that I will be starting February 3 – my wife and I will take most of January off and enjoy some time […]
E-Mobility Insights: A Pioneer’s Journey from ICE to EV – Join me Jan 30, 25
I have been invited to speak about e-mobility and join a podium discussion late January 2025. Besides me two other Swiss EV heavy-weights are going to be presenting – Christoph Erni, CEO of Juice Technologies, a charging solution provider – best known for the Juice Booster portable charging station. Martin Kyburz, CEO of Kyburz Switzerland AG, Maker of the iconic Swiss Post (and others) delivery vehicles and the fun eRod electric minimalist roadster My presentation aims at showing up how far we’ve come in 20 years – I’ll be speaking about how we were the first family far and wide […]
Upgrading TWIKE Charging: My Custom Type2 Box Solution
This project has been a long time in the making – for the last few years, I’ve been encountering more and more charging stations with fixed cables off which I cannot charge with my trusty, 10+ year-old, Type2 cable. There would be a very, very cheap way to solve this problem: the reason why you cannot just plug another Type2 cable into the plug from the charging station, effectively making cable extensions impossible is the shorter CP pin on the ‘plug’/’male’ side of the Type2 specification. The second reason for this is to ensure all other pins are seated before […]
TDI2024 – Day9 – Crossing the Alps & returning back home
Not pushing any further yesterday and a good night’s sleep really did the trick – I’m really looking forward to both the drive today …and returning home. Weather-wise is promising to be a very nice day – blue skies all over central Europe. I wake up early, get some fresh orange juice and some fresh cornetti at the hotel’s bar and pack the TWIKE for the last time. The overnight charge was a full 8h @ 9A – this morning’s battery pack temperature at 35°C is proof that the batteries had to do some work during the night. Nothing extreme: […]
TDI2024 – Day 8 – Back to the oven
Getting up at 5 am after a long good-bye party organised by my friends was hard. I had already packed the day before and with a heavy heart I closed the door to the apartment ready for my long drive back home. As mentioned in my last entry, the drive today will be mostly on motorways and Superstradas in the morning since the forecast for today shows over 38°C in the pianura and I want to get as far as possible before potentially having to slow down due to potential overheating during my drive or quick charges. Packing is easy […]
TDI2024 – Day 3-7 – Digital Nomad in Umbria
Just a short entry on my stay – during the day I work normally, connecting to customers and co-workers via the Internet. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, however, is with friends as are activities during the weekend. Evenings in August are sultry, I spend time either at my friends homes or we go to restaurants. Food has always been a big part of my life. Italy delivers every time! One of the restaurants we went had this incredible view which matched the very good food we all shared. One evening we went to San Gemini to have some late evening drinks […]