David Edwards blogs about the Vectrix
Cycle World already wrote a little online piece about the Vectrix scooter, which we showed you here. I checked their site today and was rewarded with another short article about the machine, this time from David Edwards on their staff blog page. According to the article, Edwards will be writing something up for an upcoming print edition of the magazine, which is great. Unfortunately, he regurgitated most of the same points that are mentioned over and over whenever electric vehicles are written about, namely the fact that carbon emissions are still produced when the machine is built and that the batteries still need to be charged using a powerplant. These issues have been covered a few times already, as you're probably aware. Those points should continue to be made, of course, but it would be nice to see an article which mentions those issues and their solutions... but, oh well.
[Source: Cycle World]
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bisbus 5:47PM (2/15/2008)
The solution is here... http://www.game-over-co2.de
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Marc 11:25AM (3/17/2008)
As a former owner of a Vectrix bike, all I can hope you will save your money, the bike is nothing but junk. Unrealiable, no real range, overpriced and has nothing but problems with charging. Save your money!!
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Mort 3:07PM (12/26/2007)
I'd rather stay off the highway and have an EVT Z20. $2k and 45 mph:
http://housingpanlick.blogspot.com/2007/09/japan-kicks-again.html
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Lou Grinzo 10:41PM (12/26/2007)
One detail that almost never gets attention is the benefit of relying on centralized electricity generation--when the plant is upgraded to something cleaner, or augmented with solar, wind, wave, tidal, hydro, or geothermal, then all the vehicles already on the road automatically become, in effect, cleaner. In other words, there's zero lag while we wait for people to buy or upgrade their vehicles--they just get electrons with less CO2 emitted.
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