 Over the past four years, the company has built about 80 handbikes powered by lithium batteries at its workshop in Medellín, but it's been hard to scale things up. Most people with disabilities in Colombia are unemployed and have very low incomes, so they can't afford the electric handbikes built by Londonio, which cost around $2,500. If we only are like, no, we are selling it, come and buy it, it's going to be almost a waste of time because it's so difficult.