HOT Bamboo Bicycle, Mayor Crushes Illegally-Parked Cars with Tank (+ Transportation Top 10)
Bicycles (most efficient mode of transportation known to man.. or woman) + bamboo (super fast-growing, environmentally friendly plant) = awesome bikes. Check out more on this sweet-as-heck bamboo bicycle, “grown” by grafting bamboo in the video below.
http://youtu.be/PSuNyM4FT38
More text on the bike on TheCityFix.
One more video before our top transportation stories of the week. Check out Arturas Zuokas, the “World’s Most Bike-Friendly Mayor” crush a car parked in a bike lane with a tank… Strong policy, but hey!
And how about some more cool or interesting clean transportation stories of the week? Here are a few of my favorites (other than what our good writers here on CleanTechnica have already covered):
Clean Cars
- White House Announces New Fuel Economy Standards [Red, Green, & Blue]
- Thank You, Early Electric Vehicle Adopters [NRDC]
- Zipcar Reduces Driving, Improves Sustainable Transport [TheCityFix]
- Prius Coupe Set for 2014 Launch [Gas2]
- ChargePoint Network Moves in to Boston [Gas2]
- Opel Plans to Build 20,000 Fuel-cell Luxury Sedans for 2016 [Gas2]
- Fisker Hints at Bugatti-Like Performance Thanks to New EV Transmission [Gas2]
Other Transportation Stories
- Boston’s Hubway Bike-Sharing Program Gets Going [WBUR]
- Making Buses Better [NRDC]
- Transportation as a Civil Rights Issue [Wired]
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