Need to rent a hip electric scooter for short jaunts around San Francisco? Want to causally zipin and out of all your runs for errands and feel the breeze causally on your commute. Here’s how: get your iPhone (or other smartphone, if you have one), look for a scooter, zoom in and pick one, reserve it, … [continued]
There’s so much going on in the world of clean(er) cars and bike news. Here’s a roundup of some stories from around the interwebs from the past week or so that we haven’t yet covered (see our Clean Transportation category for more): Clean Cars ChargePoint is giving away (yes, … [continued]
Electric bikes are a great way to get around the city when you don’t want to deal with expensive taxis and long lines of traffic, but is turning an electric bike into a Vespa-looking electric bike really what people want? I guess we’ll be finding out with the release … [continued]
Hey hipsters, quit waiting around for a Vespa hybrid and get on board with a Portuguese-developed, zero-emissions, electric scooter. The two-wheeled vehicle was created by a team of researchers from the Institute for Systems and Robotics at the University of Coimbra. Ana Vaz, project leader, said the scooter can … [continued]
Vectrix Japan, known for its electric scooters. Their flagship model is titled the Vectrix, and it works fairly well. Yet they’re improving it as of March 21st, with […]
Scoot Networks, one of the companies chosen by the Greenstart accelerator program, is bringing the Zipcar idea to scooters. The start-up is offering its […]
Last November, the City of Bordeaux in France asked citizens to make suggestions on what they would like to see included in the design of a new town bike. More than 300 citizens shared their ideas, which designer Philippe Starck has now used as the inspiration for what has been provisionally called the City PIBAL Streamer – an interesting concept where riders can either sit and pedal like on a traditional bike, or stand on the platform and use it like a scooter.
