There’s a trend in motor vehicles lately of combining traditionally separate means of getting around into one. We’ve covered some of these transport chimeras on this blog before, including a flying car, and a yacht-blimp (of all things) last week. So we weren’t entirely surprised to learn about Latvia-based design studio Zeltini’s BeTriton, an amphibious electric motorboat-bike-RV that looks like the lovechild of an origami crane and the Tesla Cybertruck.
Zeltini founder and CEO Aigars Lauzis got the inspiration to create such a mashup while on a four-year solo cycling trip from London to Tokyo. He became frustrated with not being able to cross water on his own, not having space to carry more than he could fit into two saddlebags, and having to constantly set up and take down his tent. Then one day in Shanghai, Lauzis had a flash of inspiration—an idea for how he could upgrade long-distance cycle touring—and the rest is history.
