Excerpted from Public Utilities Fortnightly's interview with the founder of electric-bike company Pedego:
“[Actor William Shatner] has been a customer of Pedego for the last eight years. He’s got twenty of them, and he’s always asking me for more… He’s a big fan…
At an event, he said, I haven’t figured how I’m going to get from Comic-Con in New York on Friday to Van Horn, Texas by Saturday afternoon [to take off on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket as a ninety-year-old astronaut]. I said, if you’ll allow me to accompany you, I will charter a jet and fly you from Teterboro to Van Horn, Texas…
On Saturday, we went back to Comic-Con for a couple of hours. Then we went to Teterboro airport where I have a blue Pedego Element parked… He rode it from the car to the plane…
[I was among] the closest to the rocket launch of anybody except the staff of Blue Origin… I got to see the space capsule land, and the dust, and watch that first-hand, and talked to Bill right afterward…
Bill said [later that day], you brought the wrong charger for the bike. I wanted to ride it last night and they wouldn’t let me. They said it was out of juice and the charger didn’t work.
I thought, something’s fishy. I went to see the bike and it had an eighty percent charge.
Then one of the staffers pulled me aside and said, we told Bill it was not charged because we didn’t think it would be a good idea for him to be riding an electric bike in the dark on the gravel the night before the launch.”
