Archive for 'Electric'

Here’s an eco friendly, rechargeable electric ride mower that doesn’t spew air pollution, never needs a tune-up or oil change and probably won’t wake up your neighbors when you go on that crack-of-dawn mowing spree.  The Recharge Mower will run for about 3 hours on an overnight charge (10 to 12 hrs) - just plug [...]

Don’t super-size those fries, super-size your bike.

A company called Super Sized Cycles is now selling electric assist bikes for large or obese people. They have upgraded the seat, seat post, collar, handlebar stem, tires, pedals and gears. Super Sized’s manufacturing subsidiary, Zize, is also modifying selected bikes from Currie Technologies iZip line to add its [...]

Saving energy is entering the world of car audio.  Bose has announced it will introduce its Energy Efficient Series sound system in the 2011 Chevy Volt.  The proprietary Bose system is 30% smaller, 40% lighter, and uses 50% less energy than conventional Bose sound systems, while delivering premium, high-quality audio.
Bose engineers focused their design efforts [...]

Make your daily commute fun, green and emissions-free with X-treme Scooters new XM-5000Li.

The new scooter, which is capable of traveling 60 miles per hour, can reach top speed in around 6 seconds and operate for up to 90 miles on a single charge.  The 5000Li’s 21 lithium batteries have a life cycle of 7-10 years, [...]

New energy-saving products like this Belkin Conserve surge protector are coming to market everyday.

This nicely designed surge protector will let you switch-off: phone chargers, computers, tvs and their associated electronics and peripherals so they don’t continue to suck power while in standby mode.  Has ‘always on outlets’ for items like DVRs, routers and phones. The [...]

ZENN Zero Emissions No Noise -  great name for an electric car — and it hails from Toronto, Canada.

With 250 of these babies on the road since its debut in 2006, ZENN’s top speed is 25 mph - great for driver ed classes, campus cruising, geezers or making the neighborhood rounds. With an electric re-charge [...]

London-based Karbon Kintetics is field testing a cool looking and innovative electric bike for urban commuters, the Gocycle.

The bike has a lot of great features: it’s lightweight (injection molded magnesium), the seat and handlebars adjust without tools for each rider, it has a range of 6 to 20 miles (with pedal input), 3.5 hours of [...]

Last night we attended the Chevy VOLT press event here in NYC,
and laid our hands and eyes on GM’s $1.2 million dollar prototype,
(”Please don’t slam the doors…”).

The vehicle looks sharp and rather sporty.  Not as dorky or funky as the Prius, but distinctive — in an intentionally more mainstream way.  Fact is, Chevy wants to [...]

Urban commuting doesn’t have to be a dirty, fuel guzzling endeavor.  Austin, Texas-based electric bike and scooter maker, R Martin, has just introduced its new lithium model EVD, with ‘the latest commercially available,’  lithium-iron-phosphate battery.  The plug-in electric scooter features a clean and quiet 55 mph top end and 60 mile driving range at 30 [...]

Schwinn Bicycles has announced a strategic collaboration with Toshiba that could significantly alter the electric bicycle market worldwide.

Schwinn has incorporated Toshiba’s new Super Charge ion Battery (SCiB) technology into the Schwinn Tailwind, a brand new electric bike it formally unveiled yesterday in Las Vegas at the Interbike International Bicycle Expo.
The breakthrough news on this bike [...]

I just happened upon the website of the new electric car manufacturing company, BG Automotive.  A quick scan of their web page (yes it’s a single page) revealed that they’re introducing a new, a zero emissions, all-electric sedan in October 08, with a range of 80 to 150 miles.  The car comes in a wide [...]

Ultra Motors has announced the availability of their new electric street bike in the U.S..  The A2B has some nice features like an oversized seat for a comfortable ride and wider posteriors, chunky tires, a mountain bike frame and, what the company claims, is a powerful battery and power train.  Designed to be part bike, [...]

Finnish automaker, Valmet Automotive is going to contract to produce Fisker Automotive’s, Fisker Karma, a stylish answer to the Tesla’s Whitestar sedan (see Tesla sues designer Henrik Fisker).  The sleek looking sports car will reportedly make its debut in the North American market sometime in late 2009 with European delivery in 2010.  Valmet Automotive manufactures [...]

Firebox has corralled yet another product for today’s tech obsessed geek culture, a t-shirt that detects wifi signals and graphically depicts its finds on your chest. The shirt’s glowing bars fluctuate rhythmically with the strength of the signal.  As with all these tricked out tees there’s a battery pack attached so plan on wearing some [...]

Just saw this snazzy set of mini-wheels under ‘coming attraction’ over at firebox.com.  This electric scooter from eGO will be coming to the U.K. in September and can be pre-ordered now.  The Street Skoota has a top end of 30mph and since it’s electric,  can accelerate a lot quicker than it’s gas-powered brethren.  So with [...]