Year: 2005
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Electric Scooters: Love At First Spin
Electric Scooters: Love At First Spin by Kathryn Whittaker With gasoline prices skyrocketing people start driving electric scooters. They find more and more reasons to like them. With gasoline price raising day by day. I mean the popularity of playful, fuel-efficient electric scooters has soared. As people start driving electric scooters, they find more and…
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Scooter Sales Soar with Rising Gas Prices
The rising price of gasoline is causing a seismic shift in the way Americans are getting around. With prices now reaching an average of $2.90 a gallon, more and more people are turning to scooters as a cheaper alternative to vehicles. Scooters sales are soaring in the US, and Scooterworks USA, a leading scooter retailer,…
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Electric Vehicles and Their Benefits
This is an old website, from Sempra Energy utilities but it really hits the head on the nail for accuracy about electric vehicles. Electric motors have very few moving parts and don’t need fluids such as engine oil, anti-freeze or transmission fluid, so they require relatively little maintenance and are far less likely to leak.…
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Bike City Station : Commuting Facility of Future
Let’s really talk bike city stations. For Seattle-based firm Place Architecture has come up with a concept for venues called Bike stations that could change the way we think about our commutes. I mean maybe even getting around in general. Already popular in Europe and Japan, bike stations are facilities where people can park their…
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EcoTip: Bicycles: testing the mettle of the pedal
GREAT ARTICLE ON TRANSPORTATION AND BIKES IN THIS WORLD!! Source: Treehugger.com Yikes! Bikes and trikes. What’s with Treehugger’s fascination? Probably because the single largest contributor to atmospheric pollution is surprise, surprise: motor vehicles. And according to various estimates 250,000 people die on the road every year, with 10,000,000 more injured. And yet the world has…
