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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 ... Read more →

This isn't the first scooter boom in the U.S. Jeremy Korzeniewski

Scooters first became popular in war-torn Europe after the first few world-wide spats broke loose and conspired to ruin the economies of a great many countries, not the least of which was Italy. The ...

It's Friday: Ever wonder what's really powering your Lambretta? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click on the image above to watch the video While you may be familiar with the tiger underhood of the classic Pontiac GTO, have you ever wondered what animal may be powering your vintage Lambretta ...

Italy plans to pay riders to replace their old scooters with new ones Jeremy Korzeniewski

Italy is a bastion for cool old scooter finds, as classic manufacturers such as Piaggio, Vespa and Lambretta were born and bred there. These classic scooters include striking and beautiful design ...

Italjet scooters are coming back to America Jeremy Korzeniewski

Perhaps I am showing too much of my inner scooter-geek-dom with this post, but I am really excited that Italjet scooters are coming back to the American market. One reason is that these scooters are ...

100 years of saving gas: Motorcycle USA visits the Underwood Museum 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I have decided to christen today "Transportation Alternatives" day. That means that all posts by me, Jeremy Korzeniewski, will be about something other than cars. We'll start the day off with a small sampling of one man's personal collection of obscure transportation oddities. From human-powered ...

UK Transportation Chief rides a scooter, tells others to ride the bus 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I picked up this little story from The Scooter Scoop, which I can always count on to have funny little blurbs of interest. It seems that UK Transportation Chief Martin Mullaney has been chided for not taking his own advice, which is to ride the bus to work. The problem? He rides his scooter. I can ...


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