Wheego to introduce electric Lambretta GP200e scooter?
Based on an advertisement in the latest issue of Scoot! Magazine (via our friends at 2 Stroke Buzz), Wheego is currently working on a new electric scooter that looks to be built atop a vintage-style Lambretta platform. Beyond that, details are decidedly scarce. It's possible that Wheego is working with Scooters India Limited – a company that acquired the rights to build the Italian-designed scooters from Innocenti in the early 1970s – but this is just conjecture.We can't help but note that Wheego's decision to clearly ape the design of the classic Lambretta scooter for its electric two-wheeler follows the company's previous footsteps in the automotive realm, where it uses a design that seems to draw more than a bit of inspiration from the smart fortwo. In any case, Wheego apparently wants your feedback. Brilliance or Sacrilege, asks the ad. What do say you?
[Source: 2 Stroke Buzz]
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Lorena Palin 11:03AM (8/23/2009)
Scooters don't need to be electric. If you want an electric 2 wheeler get an E-bike, it's cheaper and you have pedal backup. Or a bicycle, those things are great.
If it had any kind of good battery on it, would be insanely expensive, and it would be way too easy to steal said batteries.
Also, I'm sick of neo-retro scooters. Like, they are pretentious as hell, show you are paying a premium to live in the past, and show that the manufacture didn't have the money or the balls to get somone who could design something *NEW* (and to be fair, the honda and suzuki scooters that look like the bastard love child of sportbike and a vespa look like crap too. The Yamaha C3 is a good lookin' scoot though)
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