I’ve blogged about quite a few electric whatevers. But this one’s really cool. Have a look…. http://www.elmoto-cycles.com/ Inventors from Stuttgart in Germany have crossed a mountain bike with an electric scooter. Looks great and should be the ideal thing for Kiwis. Goes 45km/h and has a radius of over 60km. Costs about a $1 per [...]
So far so Good. Rebecca & I have been without a car for a couple of months now and it’s about time I give a feedback on how it is going. Long story short…no worse than before! As before we’re still using walking, buses and taxi as our main source of movement. We use the [...]
The government/metlink has introduced a new website http://www.letscarpool.govt.nz/ where you can search/join car pools. I think this is a great idea especially for those living a little further out of town. But I’d be surprised if Kiwis take this up at all. There’s just too much car-love going on. For the congestion & environments sake [...]
Vectrix is that company with the cool electric scooters. To my dismay there’s now reports that they seem to be in difficult financial times (http://tinyurl.com/d26vst). I’d definitely be sad to see them go. They have produced a very high quality electric bike that is highly desirable were it not for the steep price. And they [...]
An idea that never occurred to me is that we could utilise petrol engines more effectively by using electric propulsion. The dutch company e-traction has developed a diesel-electric drive train that brings down diesel consumption and pollution for buses quite significantly. A diesel engine charges the batteries that drive the bus with electric engines. Because [...]