Case Studies
Building the Infrastructure Behind Better Outdoor Exploration
Electrek Explorer develops and tests new exploration systems through real-world applications - spanning mobility, destinations, accessibility, and immersive experience - to understand where people go, how they move, and how journeys are experienced across different environments.
We test how environmental context, local knowledge, and real-world conditions can shape more intelligent, human-centred journeys.
Flagship: Recharge in Nature
A multi-partner pilot exploring how exploration can be designed as a system - integrating routes, places, infrastructure, accessibility, and human experience across EV, e-bike, walking, and in-car contexts.
The pilot demonstrated how E-mobility-enabled journeys can:
Support restoration, curiosity, and engagement in natural environments
Integrate EV and e-bike travel with nature-rich routes
Surface accessibility, facilities, and local context alongside navigation
Connect destinations, local businesses, culture and landscapes into coherent journeys
Recharge in Nature Partners:
NatureScot, Visit Outer Hebrides, Southern Uplands Partnership, Ordnance Survey, South of Scotland Destination Alliance, Highlands & Islands Enterprise
Recognised by
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“Electrek Explorer connects you with beautiful nature spots while using electric bikes.”
— COP26 UK Department of Transport #OneStepGreener
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“This app caters to both electric vehicles and electric bikes, while promoting active travel through nature, improving fitness and wellbeing.”
— The Herald
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“We’re delighted to be involved in helping to realize this innovative idea, bringing low-carbon travel and nature tourism together.”
— Recharge in Nature Partnership
Applied Spatial Intelligence for Destinations & Mobility
Electrek Explorer applies spatial intelligence to destinations and mobility systems — mapping nature, access, facilities, and local insight to support route design, mobility planning, and tourism strategy.
Through Recharge in Nature and related projects, we’ve delivered applied exploration intelligence to help partners design new routes, evaluate mobility readiness, and connect people more meaningfully with place.
This work includes:
Mapping and analysing nature assets, cultural heritage, viewpoints, and road typologies
Identifying EV and e-bike facilities and tourism-ready infrastructure
Integrating accessibility, bike-friendly, and EV-friendly business insights
Engaging local businesses to surface practical, on-the-ground knowledge
Outcome:
Demonstrates how experience-aware exploration intelligence can inform planning, routing, and platform decisions across mobility, tourism, and mapping ecosystems.
Transforming Outdoor Exploration
Mobility & Routing Research
Electrek Explorer has explored how routing can evolve when experience is treated as a first-class input.
This includes early research into scenic and experience-aware EV routing, developed with academic partners, examining how environmental qualities can influence route selection alongside distance and time.
These experiments provide foundational validation for experience-aware mobility systems - relevant to mapping platforms, OEMs, and navigation interfaces.
Exploration in Practice
Some projects are not products or pilots, but lived experiments.
The EURO Tour - a long-distance Paris–Madrid E-bike journey - explored low-carbon travel across varied terrain, infrastructure, and communities, testing how routes, facilities, environmental conditions, and local knowledge intersect in practice.
This fieldwork informs how Electrek Explorer thinks about usable journeys - shaped by real constraints, not abstract routes.
Immersive & Spatial Exploration
Exploration is not limited to navigation interfaces.
Through immersive and spatial media — including VR, XR, and cinematic 360° — members of our team have explored how people perceive, understand, and emotionally connect with places.
This work informs how exploration systems can operate across attention, perception, and storytelling — supporting use cases from trip preparation and accessibility to remote exploration and environmental understanding.
(Immersive projects are presented separately under Immersive Work)
Across projects, our work shows that:
Exploration is a system, not a dataset
Routes and places are only useful when they are usable, contextual, and meaningful
Local and experiential knowledge can become scalable infrastructure
Mobility platforms benefit when journeys are designed for people, not just vehicles
In short, we are building the layer beneath better outdoor exploration.
Working With Us
We collaborate with mapping companies, public bodies, mobility platforms, academic partners, destinations, and technology partners exploring the future of exploration and movement.
Across previous roles and projects, team members have delivered immersive, creative, and technical work for organisations including Formula 1, National Geographic, Rolls-Royce, Fauna & Flora International, and Mountain Rescue teams.
This experience underpins our approach to exploration systems - combining field production, creative technology, and geospatial insight to produce interactive experiences that remain stable, accessible, and scalable over time.
If you’re interested in piloting, partnering, or shaping new exploration systems - from inspiration to navigation - we welcome conversation.
