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Non Petroleum based "Green Motor Oil" = G-Oil

Monday, November 5, 2007

(There she is G-Oil! Not to be confused with Olive Oil, who is Popeye’s “goil” as he would say.) Found this over at the Kneeslider (see title link) who caught it on the Popular Mechanics site. Seems a new company, Green Earth Technologies, has come up with a way to render motor oil from beef […]

More prime time scooter luv – SCRUBS

Thursday, October 25, 2007

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Sebastian over at AutoblogGreen dropped some coverage on the National Multiple Sclerosis Society raffle featuring THIS electric scooter from Bigassmotors. Seems that besides supporting this great organization Bigassmotors is also announcing the Scoot N Shoot N. It’s an electric scooter in place of the good old track and dolly system. May not have the stability […]

French race car legend Matra returns as a green bike

Thursday, October 4, 2007

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One of our friends, FM, sends news from the Paris show that can be found over at CyberScooter.it (title link). This is the Matra, an electric hybrid bicycle that reminds me a bit of the MadAss if it were greener and a hell-of-a-lot more expensive. Here we’re looking at a 60 mile range at 30mph […]

Digital50: ZAP Receives $1 Million Initial Electric Car & Scooter Order

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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(the girl looks hip, but I think the dude put the plug in the wrong socket here) This is great news for ZAP! In an effort to “build awareness”, Canada is planning to import a bunch of electrics in time for the Olympics. Pluggy would be pleased. Here’s a bit from the press release (you […]

Vectrix announces Fuel Cell plans

Monday, August 6, 2007

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Jalopnik, the cool blog with the funny little name made a discovery back in July that Vectrix has some hydrogen fuel cell plans in the works. They sum it up like this: Electric scooter manufacturer Vertrix is working up a fuel-cell powered machine that’ll run 155 miles on a tank of Zeppelin juice. The 500-watt […]

The first US bound Vectrix to be delivered TOMORROW!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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Don Auker will have his Vectrix delivered to his home, becoming the first U.S. resident to receive delivery (lucky bastard). Auker plans to use his Vectrix for commuting to his office in Lebanon (that’s war-torn Lebanon, PA). (and now the elevator speech) Vectrix—the world’s first high-powered, electric two-wheel vehicle with high performance, sleek design and […]