Oliver Erlewein on June 3rd, 2009

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 100km. This [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 23rd, 2009

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 bus every [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 13th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on April 17th, 2009

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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on April 9th, 2009

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 the [...]

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