Is this Chinese Knockoff Hum Rider 2.0?

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You might remember Hum Rider, Verizon’s fascinating but hilariously impractical marketing stunt from a couple of years ago:

What the video doesn’t show is that this one-trick pony is outrageously heavy and tops out at 15 mph...

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Still, it’s a fun idea. Enough so, that somebody’s gone and put a similar system on a Xpeng G3.

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The video above has strategically cropped out the source credit, and the higher-quality one below blurred it out, so I’ve come up empty trying to locate the source (TikTok?). If you know where it is, let me know and I’ll update this post to give credit where credit is due. Meanwhile, skip 51 seconds into the video below for maximum pixels: