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The rebirth of electric motorcycle maker, Vectrix

Over the summer Vectrix went into bankruptcy announcing that their assets would be purchased by "New Vectrix". Vectrix made the first commercial highway speed electric motorcycle and delivered their first motorcycles in 2007. However they never had enough sales to keep the company going, ran out of money, and went into bankruptcy. It's now known that GP Batteries has bought New Vectrix and the Vectrix assets apparently with the intent to restart the company.… Continue

Added by David Herron on November 20, 2009 at 11:52pm — No Comments

Electric 1972 Datsun Coupe: the World's Fastest Emission Free Car?

Watch as John Wayland's electric car, the White Zombie leaves high powered gas cars in the dust as Portland makes a home for the National Electric Drag Racing Association. John claims that his car is the world's fastest accelerating street legal electric car. See this 1972 Datsun time and time again take advantage of the electric motor's full torque in the first instant and continue to break world records. Watch the video… Continue

Added by Peter Aarhus on November 19, 2009 at 9:07pm — No Comments

Think will build U.S. plant in Indiana...?

Global is deepening its roots in Indiana. The City electric car already uses batteries made by local company Ener1, which also owns 31 percent of Think Global. When the Think starts up production again (it was shut down while the company went through bankruptcy and then restructured) the cars are scheduled to be built at new minority shareholder Valmet Automotive's factory in Uusikaupunki, Finland. Think has 2,300 outstanding orders for the City and Valmet plans on building twice that many City… Continue

Added by Linas Tatarūnas on November 19, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

TechnoSanity #33: A look at the World Energy Outlook, 2009

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released their yearly World Energy Outlook report for 2009. This report is used by governments and corporations worldwide for planning energy policies and purchases. This years report is very sobering on several levels. The primary purpose of the report is to show the state of the oil, natural gas and coal industries and give recommendations. This years report makes it clear t… Continue

Added by David Herron on November 12, 2009 at 3:56am — No Comments

MetroBuddy Gets 10 year warranty on batteries

The MetroBuddy which is slated for launch in Norway in January 2010 will be delivered with a 10 year or 100.000 KM warranty on the batterypack. The EV comes with the Buddy Advanced Energy System (BAES). BAES builds upon Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) Batteries which have been proven by a long trac… Continue

Added by Richard on November 11, 2009 at 3:02pm — No Comments

Tesla & Prius scrap avaliable!

In the marked for some cheap batteries for your Toyota Prius or Tesla Roadster? This may be your lucky day. This Tesla-Prius encounter which just happened in Denmark may be the first of it's kind. It looks dramatic but no one got hurt (if you could believe it) The spectacular chrash happened i… Continue

Added by Richard on November 4, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Mavizen's all electric supermotorcycle for the TTXGP circuit is revealed

This week at the SEMA trade show in Las Vegas, Mavizen unveiled the TTX02. It is an all electric superbike meant to jumpstart teams that want to compete in the TTXGP race series. 130 miles/hr and a range more than enough to make it around the Snaefell course on the Isle of Man. It's exciting. See:… Continue

Added by David Herron on November 4, 2009 at 11:05pm — No Comments

Electricity on its way Up in motorcross

Zero Motorcycles along side Quantya are doing great work in the electric division of motorcycles. The annual motorcross event by the French Motorcycle Federation,… Continue

Added by Ben on October 26, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Brammo's Shocking Barack ride from Detroit to Washington DC

This morning I spoke with Brian Wismann of Brammo on the phone about the ride they're taking across the U.S. The goal is to raise awareness of electric motorcycles (oh, and to raise awareness of the Enertia motorcycle) etc… Continue

Added by David Herron on October 16, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Lightning Motors has second fastest electric motorcycle, ahead of Mission Motors

This last week on the Bonneville Salt Flats, saw the Lightning Motors team led by Richard Hatfield speed testing an electric motorcycle. They had intended to take this motorcycle to the TTXGP race earlier this year but it wasn't ready in time. Additionally this is not a one-off project to set land speed records, but it is the… Continue

Added by David Herron on October 13, 2009 at 8:13am — 4 Comments

EV movement in Finland

Just back from Helsinki where I interviewed members of the global EV conversion team at http://ecars-now.wikidot.com/ - the Finns have picked up a smart idea - why try to replace 1 billion cars on the road today when you could convert millions of them with existing EV technology? The MINI E I drive a case in point as BMW simply converted the existing platform (thanks to AC Propulsion) to qualify for the CA tax credit deadline that ended June 30. Warm and fuzzy zero emissions feelings I was havin… Continue

Added by Mark Winkworth on September 18, 2009 at 3:13pm — No Comments

All this years MiEV's now sold !

It appears that all 2000 of the 2009 production of the Mitsubishi MiEV were sold in just a few days recently in Japan . Mitsubishi even removed the cars on show in shopping malls and showrooms across Japan demand for the new car was so high ! The cars were sold at 4 million yen , and then with the governmen… Continue

Added by andrew richard rose on September 12, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

Just watched ... The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

I acquired a copy of the movie and just watched it. Wow this is a good movie. I'd only heard about it by reputation and never actually seen it. Just wrote up a review on my blog site and on the same page have references to a couple youtube videos. These include one interview with someone who worked in the team that made this movie, and they go over the movie. Review: The Power Of Co… Continue

Added by David Herron on September 4, 2009 at 6:39am — 2 Comments

ION - the electric ripples are starting to grow

This is the ION, built by Tom Miceli who's just finished at Appalachian State University where he left with a BS in Industrial Design. At Southern Energy and Environment Expo 2009 he unveiled his electric motorcycle which is built in a single semester… Continue

Added by Ben on September 3, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

THINK EXITS COURT PROTECTION - Gets new investors and production in Finland

We are very busy at the moment so please read the press release from Think : OSLO, Norway, 27 August 2009 – Think, The Norwegian electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer announces today that the Norwegian courts have approved its debt settlement plan, enabling the company to exit court protection. Effectively, this puts… Continue

Added by Richard on August 27, 2009 at 3:37pm — 10 Comments

Electricity on its way to Frankfurt

The Norwegian newspaper dagbladet posts today that the Audi R8 will be shown as a pure electric version at the car show in Frankfurt this year. VW's city-car UP, which gets here in 2011 will also be available as an electric. Looking forward to the specs on the R8 indeed! Source:… Continue

Added by Ben on August 25, 2009 at 10:28am — No Comments

Denmark part 2: Showing off to students and politicians

-So what is that? An electric car? We have just completed our first 65 KM strech of our 180KM trip to Grenaa from Frederikshavn and the ferry in Hals Egense is ready to take us over a river. An EV is always a head turner and this time is no different

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Added by Richard on August 22, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The TTXGP 2009 - A Silent Adrenaline Kick

The TTXGP/The eGrandPrix Isle of Man road race have been run and from what I can tell by the video's I found on youtube; it's a hit. The riders seems to be in awe about the bikes and the engineering. The grand prix even got their own limited edition DVD/Blu-Ray release of the race w… Continue

Added by Ben on August 19, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

400 miles of InterScandinavian EV travel now possible with Stena Line

ElectricAid & Norstart is pleased to inform you that with a little help from ferry operator Stena Line, you can now venture of with your EV between some of the borders of Scandinavia without any more hassle than if you where to travel with an ICE car. It is quite normal to use ferries if your visiting Denmark wit… Continue

Added by Richard on August 18, 2009 at 4:30pm — 10 Comments

WHO BUILT THE MOON BUGGY??????????

Remember the car the US Astronauts took to the moon? That was a long time ago, but I wonder if that company still builds electric cars. It seems to me that the problem is that high tech companies like Raytheon, Grumman, Boeing are not very interested in building autos, because of the low profit margin. In the US it is more prfitable to pursue defense contracts. I don't think this is a technology problem in the US, but a profit problem. Continue

Added by Dan Ditto on August 13, 2009 at 8:30am — 6 Comments

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