Oliver Erlewein on June 3rd, 2009

For my vehicular A-to-B machine I needed some LED lights for slight modding. After a lot of searching and reading I stumbled across Carl and his ledstuff.co.nz website. He really helped me select what LED lights I needed and has been very helpful. After sales service was also excellent and no-fuss-quick. So if you have [...]

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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 [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 29th, 2009

Ok, so here we have what I said would come in the last election. National cannot promise tax cuts like they are proposing. Bill English said today something like “the downturn is worse than even the worst prognosis and therefore the tax cuts cannot be upheld”. Basically either he is lying and National has pulled [...]

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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 March 27th, 2009

I’m not what you’d call a normal car buff but the Tesla Model S is what I really want. With a price tag of US$50,000+ it falls into the BMW 5 Series or Mercedes E-Class range. It has looks that resemble a Maserati and the stamina that can make it an exceptional EV. I sure [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on March 8th, 2009

One of the things that just went wrong last week was that the Mitsubishi dealer took a look at my car and mumbled something like “$4000 in repairs”. For that I can buy two used Mitsus! That has sealed the fate of this car. It’s now up as wreckage on TradeMe. Hope that somebody can [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on February 9th, 2009

I’ve said time and again that I think hydrogen propulsion will be a solution only for trucks, planes and motorbikes. The reason being that batteries would be impractical in these vehicles. But at least on the latter I stand to be corrected. Have a look at this beautiful creation…. I’d say that is a very [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on February 3rd, 2009

We read a lot about how datacenters need to be more energy efficient. PCs are becoming more and more energy efficient. That is true and is happening but what’s alarming is that we use ever more of the energy efficient stuff. Where we had single core systems in the past we now have quad/eight-core systems. [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on February 2nd, 2009

IKEA is a household name all across the World. All the World? No. Two small islands in the Pacific resist the trend. New Zealand has NO IKEA! Here in NZ we live without the cheap but quality goods. Especially Europeans miss their favourite furniture store. There are hundreds of rumours around the so-called Auckland-IKEA. It’s [...]

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