The Wright Brothers Flyer... The Ford Model T... An Electric Bike?
The licensing deal is with a Canadian electric scooter company — admittedly a quiet way of entering the market.
This week, however, the company followed up that press release with even bigger news: It's just received its first production order.
The order is for $500,000 worth of "motor drivers" — electronic devices designed to optimize electric motor performance by managing the inflow of electricity between the power source and the motor itself.
The more important factor here, however, is the client.
As one of the biggest and oldest electric motor producers in Mexico, Potencia Industrial builds everything from wind and hydroelectric generators to 15,000-horsepower electric motors.
It also builds smaller mass-market products like kits for converting gas-driven vehicles into electric power.
It will implement the motor drivers to optimize its existing products, but given the history of collaboration between these two companies, additional integration of DPM into more Potencia products is almost certain to occur in short order.
The Future Has Never Been Clearer