The Amble One: A Tech-Minded Beach Buggy
The Amble One is an electric beach buggy designed for short trips across resorts, islands, campuses, and low-speed communities. It's a lightweight, street-legal vehicle that sits between a beach car, golf cart, and compact EV. With an open frame, cork details, and a top speed capped at 40 mph, the Amble One is a unique and innovative vehicle.
The project is led by a team with experience across hospitality, industrial design, e-bikes, and creative direction. José António Uva brings a resort-world perspective, Adrien Roose comes from Cowboy, Michael Tropper is known through the London studio forpeople, and industrial designer Julian Hoenig has worked across Audi and Apple. Together, they frame the Amble One as a lightweight electric vehicle for journeys where a full-size car feels oversized.
The Amble One's design is inspired by NASA's lunar rover, with an exposed electric platform and a broad stance over rugged tires. The cabin is shaped by aluminum, leather, cotton, and cork, with large orange screws marking the parts that can be removed or reconfigured. The dashboard bar uses the same diameter as motorcycle handlebars, allowing standard bike accessories to attach directly.
The Amble One is fully road legal in both the US and EU, with a top speed capped at 40 mph and a range of more than 60 miles. It charges from a standard home socket in about five hours and stays below 450 kilograms, a threshold that helps it qualify within Europe’s L7e vehicle category. The weight limit shapes the design as much as the open-air feeling does.
The first use cases point toward hospitality. Resorts including Amangiri in Utah, Mustique Island, and Six Senses Les Bordes in the Loire Valley are among the early customers, with initial deliveries planned for 2027. In these settings, the buggy becomes part of the guest route between villas, beaches, restaurants, and trails, where the travel time can carry some of the atmosphere of the destination itself.
The passenger version can be adapted for cargo and light commercial use through a modular platform. Rear seats fold flat, a canvas weather option is planned, and a lockable front box will replace the open basket for more urban buyers. The vehicle keeps the arrangement simple, but the details suggest a product built for changing needs across resorts, campuses, and compact communities.
Amble is already working on a second platform that will move closer to a conventional small car, with removable doors, a hardtop, and a lower roofline planned for a later release. For now, the One makes the stronger editorial gesture. It treats the electric buggy as a design object with its own language, shaped by material, weight, exposure, and the feeling of moving through a place at human scale.
The Amble One is a unique and innovative vehicle that combines the best of both worlds: the convenience of an electric vehicle and the fun of a beach buggy. It's a vehicle that is designed to be both functional and stylish, and it's sure to turn heads wherever it goes.
