Goover: this wheeled bike trailer prevents having to lift one's electric bikes

The New Zealander Goover has launched a wheeled bike carrier on Kickstarter. Users can place their electric bikes on the ground level and then push the entire setup to the car’s hitch — eliminating the need to lift up to 60 kg of electric bikes.

With electric bikes weighing 25 to 35 kg, loading a bike carrier quickly turns into a workout. Frank Witowski is familiar with this issue: the founder of Goover has been designing carbon electric bikes under the Hybrid Bikes brand in Nelson for nearly a decade. He explains that some of his clients, often over 50 years old, gave up on long car trips because they couldn’t lift their bikes onto the carrier.

His solution, developed over 18 months, reverses the usual logic. Instead of bringing the bike to the hitch-mounted bike rack, the loaded bike rack is brought to the car. In the official visuals, the prototype is actually attached to a Hyundai Ioniq 5, proving that the target audience includes drivers of electric cars equipped with a hitch.

As a journalist for 20 years, Régis is the editorial director of Automobile Propre and deputy editor-in-chief of Cleanrider. He specializes in new technologies and electric bicycles, and is passionate about electric cars. This mix of interests gives him a natural interest in everything related to the field of energy transition.