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Video: pedal-powered Buick not legal in Toronto

Artist Michel de Broin stripped down a 1986 Buick Regal and added pedal power. The video above shows some guys taking it on the road, then the Toronto police pulling the car over and eventually towing it away. Don't feel too bad for the concept because there is a street-legal human-powered car available from the HumanCar Company. I think a covered human car and even the Buick would be street legal if the people that made the video took the right steps. I assume riding in a comfortable, aerodynamic, safe human-powered vehicles is a funny, stunt ... Read more →

WIRED's Top 10 fastest green cars (one goes just 30 mph?) Lascelles Linton

WIRED has compiled a list of fast green cars. The magazine looked for the fastest cars that ran on a type of green fuel or no fuel at all, like the Volvo Aria in the picture above. That car runs on ...

107 miles in 24 hours sets a new human powered boating world record Jeremy Korzeniewski

Human power strikes again. Humans have been powering themselves all over the world since we first existed. For the longest time, humans had no choice; they had to wait for the wheel to be invented ...

Green forklifts use human power Jeremy Korzeniewski

We have brought you news of cars made from electric forklifts and hydrogen fuel cell powered forklifts... and now we would like to present: human-powered forklifts! Yep, that's right, these forklifts ...

Video: pedal-powered Buick not legal in Toronto 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Artist Michel de Broin stripped down a 1986 Buick Regal and added pedal power. The video above shows some guys taking it on the road, then the Toronto police pulling the car over and eventually towing it away. Don't feel too bad for the concept because there is a street-legal human-powered car ...

WIRED's Top 10 fastest green cars (one goes just 30 mph?) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

WIRED has compiled a list of fast green cars. The magazine looked for the fastest cars that ran on a type of green fuel or no fuel at all, like the Volvo Aria in the picture above. That car runs on gravity and won the 2005 extreme gravity race. Ethanol, steam, hydrogen, electric, solar, gravity, ...

107 miles in 24 hours sets a new human powered boating world record 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Human power strikes again. Humans have been powering themselves all over the world since we first existed. For the longest time, humans had no choice; they had to wait for the wheel to be invented before they could use such cool items as the bike, moped, scooter, car or truck. Then, air travel came ...

Green forklifts use human power 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We have brought you news of cars made from electric forklifts and hydrogen fuel cell powered forklifts... and now we would like to present: human-powered forklifts! Yep, that's right, these forklifts were designed to use simple gearing to increase the capabilities of the human body in order to lift ...


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