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Rise of the electric – Mitka the electric oddity

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Vanenbrink is Dutch for “kickassed design” or at least “Out-there design”… don’t believe me check out some of their other projects. Here’s how they describe this little environmental oddity: Mitka: a New Mobility concept for individual transport at short distances. The Mitka is a new environmentally friendly vehicle, which has been developed in a joint […]

Rise of the electric – Japan’s wild EV-X7 and talks of a 2008 product release

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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Our good friend Jo B. wanted to scoop us on some new developments from Japan’s Axle Group. You may remember their electric / magnetic hybrid scooter (above) from back in the day. Looks like a sweeeet electric and I’d love to see it on the road… the question is “will we?”. No word on the […]

Rise of the electric – Emax’s new mass producton Silicone Lead Acid scooter

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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I don’t have a whole lot of details here, but looks like Germany’s Emax is kicking up a new Silicone Lead Acid battery scooter for 2008. Here’s what AutoExpress (title link) had to say: The battery-powered twist ‘n’ go machine has a range of around 60 miles when travelling at its restricted top speed of […]

Rise of the electric – MIT / SYM / GM’s electric origami

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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Mr. Mystery scooper (as well as S.A., and even my wife) pointed out this bit from MIT. These are from their “Smart Cities” project. MIT’s dream is that by 2020 you’ll be able to rent one of these electric scooters (built by SYM?) on the street to get you around town. Expect to see even […]

Rise of the electric – iMobility LEV

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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(Wow! Very spacy design. Looks like it was drawn up by Honda.) Again, my masked scooper pointed us toward some EICMA Milan 2007 coverage. This time from CyberScooter.it (title link), we see the iMobility Light Electric Vehicle. This fully enclosed, three-wheeled +1 (1 in the front, 2 on the sides and 1 in the back), […]

Rise of the electric – Electric Buddy?

Saturday, December 1, 2007

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This week I want to give a little update on the world of electric scooters. Why? Well, our email box has been crammed full of electric scooter news and scoops over the last couple of weeks. So, without further delay here’s what we’ve got: A good friend of ours, who’s name we shan’t reveal, gave […]