WE ARE
MÄX & MÄLEON
WE ARE
MÄX & MÄLEON
We bring a breeze
into narrow, hot cities.
AND FINALLY, RIDING PLEASURE IN CLIMATE PROTECTION.
Because we continue where the automotive industry stopped: We build sustainable mobilität – vehicles für a grüne, livable future.
WHAT DRIVES US
Our cities are choking on traffic, the planet is getting hotter. Yet vehicles keep getting bigger and emit more greenhouse gases into the air.
We've lived car‑free in the city for years. Yet we still shop constantly and move things from A to B. And we still want to head to the lake ride, grill, garden, playground, school, daycare, work, and more with our kids, relatives and friends.
By train it’s often fine, but just as often it’s a hassle. Car‑sharing is usually pricey, hard to reach – and of course a climate killer. So it’s always: climate protection or comfort. Driving pleasure or conscience. Want or sacrifice.
It got us thinking and experimenting.
MORE & THAN OR
We need more than just "or": Individual mobility that is comfortable, practical and inclusive; that is fun and environmentally friendly. Vehicles that adapt to human needs like chameleons to the colors of their environment.
Since we couldn't find a vehicle that meets these requirements, we developed one ourselves:
- An e-cargo bike for transporting children and adults
- Comfortable and versatile like a wagon
- Dynamic, free and sustainable like a bike
- With passenger seat, trunk and Sports Chassis
- For the city, for the countryside and also for the mountains
- The first electrifying alternative to the car
MAKING OF MÄLEON
The first designs 2020
Founding Mäx & Mäleon 2021
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
Electric cars generate 80% of their emissions before the first drive, during production and transport. Truly sustainable mobility therefore requires environmentally conscious supply chains and manufacturing processes. To avoid long distances and best control production conditions, we build every bike ourselves. When selecting components and suppliers, we prioritize durability, regional sourcing, and sustainability.
Our commitment to quality combines Swabian engineering with sustainable craftsmanship. Every Mäx & Mäleon is therefore a unique piece, produced in our Stuttgart factory.
INCLUSIVE MOBILITY
In the transport sector, three times more Männer than women work – accordingly, transport routes, vehicles and mobility offers are often designed for male bodies and usage habits. Also at Mäx & Mäleon there are still more Männer than women working. That's why we want to help turn the perspective around.
Because truly sustainable mobility considers all road users – and therefore ride at Mäx & Mäleon everyone: people of all ages and genders, any background and skin colour, with physical limitations and disabilities. Our bikes can optionally be built with barrier‑free entry or a wheelchair ramp.
FEMALE MOBILITY
We especially boost women's mobility—female travel patterns are often more complex than men's. In daily care work, women move themselves, kids, relatives, and friends, favoring short combined routes over long straight ones.
That means: on the way to work, quickly to daycare and school, then back to the supermarket, sports field, etc. So Mäx & Mäleon builds versatile, fun, load‑relieving vehicles – we turn cargo bikes into relief bikes, basically.
Sustainable corporate culture
Consistent sustainability also means building a sustainable corporate culture that makes participation the guiding principle.
We want a company that not only claims flat hierarchies and democratic processes but actually lives them, even when conflicts arise.
We want a company that pays everyone fairly, where everyone enjoys working and contributing – a firm owned by all employees.
The company is successful when employees feel comfortable, customers are satisfied, and it makes an impact on the transport transition.