History

Patmont Motor Werks was founded in 1985 when inventor Steve Patmont built the first motorized scooter in his garage, later branding it the Go-Ped. By 1989, Patmont Motor Werks outgrew the garage and into multiple warehouses in Livermore, California, where Patmont Motor Werks and Go-Ped have experienced continued growth, innovation and success over the past 16 years as the leading creator and innovator behind the highest quality motorized, electric and self-powered personal transport devices. As a family owned and operated company, Go-Ped's diverse products are inspired and designed to capture the fun, free and trend-setting spirit that is the very essence of the individualistic lifestyle.

The Go-Ped Story

Beginning in 1985 with a prototype for a new motorized personal transportation device Steve Patmont, his wife Hannelore and two sons Gabe and Tim launched Patmont Motor Werks, creators of the Go-Ped Brand of original folding motorized scooters. They began by building Go-Peds in their Pleasanton California garage for friends and family that just had to have one, and it blossomed from there.

Knowing the market opportunities were endless for their fun and safe, carefree design, the Patmont family secured a patent and began shopping their invention around to purveyors of yachts and personal aircraft as a light, portable alternative transportation device to extend transportation choices for various commuting, practical utility and recreation uses.

Today Patmont Motor Werks is the world leader in personal transportation and proudly produces the world's finest portable transportation devices out of it's "enlarged garage", a 70,000 sq ft "state of the art" production facility in Minden Nevada USA.

The Patmont family has kept PMW strong by constantly innovating new and improved products. In addition to an excellent selection of scooters and carts, the introduction of the ESR750 pure electric GoPed scooter line in 2003 now provides the world with a zero emission, environmentally friendly transportation device for those wishing to reduce climate change, their carbon footprint, beat the rising prices of fossil fuel, and foreign oil dependence.

In 2005 The Patmont family introduced the patented Cantilevered Independent Dynamic Linkless Indispension (C.I.D.L.I.). This revolutionary yet simple and extremely effective suspension system redefined the portable transportation market once again. Now off road enthusiasts and those simply wishing for a more comfortable ride can also experience the amazing benefits of these practical and portable Gopeds.

Today Patmont Motor Werks remains family owned with a dedicated "extended family" of employees, vendors, authorised dealers, and loyal customers that have the same belief in quality, excellence and freedom that began in the garage as an American dream back in 1985.