RIDON + MODEK = RIDEK

Enhancing EV Economics

As the concern about global warming and ocean acidification grows, the inertia of established industry will become a scramble not just to resist but to STOP the emission of carbon, and the only sure way of doing that is to leave it in the ground!

As a major step toward achieving this goal, all cars must be electric. Understandably, the response of relevant industry has been to safeguard its shareholders against disruptive changes by using their potent lobbying, advertizing and engineering skills. However, for enthusiastic public acceptance, the economics of the necessary changes must encourage their adoption. People will change if they have to but not as quickly as when there is a financial incentive. Ridek Modularity can provide this financial incentive and it happens to be safer and more convenient but it is disruptive; it will turn the energy and automotive industries upside down.

Modularizing a car is not new—Henry Ford did it when mass-producing his Model T. What makes ridek modularization different is that the modek can be exchanged for another in just a few minutes, and this has a whole range of consequences.

How did Ridek Modularity come about? Battery swapping is not easy but modek swapping is and it leaves the battery and its connections undisturbed. Modek is short for motorized deck which contains the works of a car and is quickly separable from the ridon passenger compartment that rides on it. When mated, the complete vehicle is a ridon/modek, or ridek.







Key to Modularity Map

  • Better visibility results from driver and passengers sitting high as in an SUV.
  • Convenience: a new design of retractable step makes entering and leaving easier than in an SUV. Connection to the electricity grid is automatic.
  • Easily trained mechanics work on standardized modeks made especially accessible when the ridon is removed.
  • Efficient V2G energy storage: batteries are highly efficient and electricity can be sold to as well as bought from the grid.
  • Hired from a pool of well-maintained and updated modeks.
  • Increased safety from better maintenance, low center of gravity, better visibility, occupants above car bumpers, batteries and machinery.
  • Individually owned and maintained ridon is equivalent to a private car without its mechanical problems.
  • Installation of traffic control equipment is easy if modeks are operated under city contol.
  • Locally assembled, maintained and updated modeks are feasible with simplicity of ridek modularity.
  • Locally customized ridons are equally feasible ; both give local employment and keep costs down.
  • Long service life of modeks gives long write off for the modek, the more expensive ridek component.
  • Low energy cost, especially with V2G.
  • Low monthly fee results from several of the above.
  • No plugging in under curb-connect system.
  • No Service problems just quick modek exchange.
  • Operated under city’s auspices paves the way for improved traffic control.
  • Reduced insurance from increased safety.
  • Simplified road fee replaces gas tax calculated from GPS, clock and odometer information and stored n meter in modek, together with V2G based utility charges, to be settled monthly.