Batteries: Honda has chosen Toshiba
We know Toshiba for its laptop computers, or its copiers, tomorrow we may also know this japanese company as a battery manufacturer for electric cars. Toshiba is building a new factory that will have...
View ArticleThe electric scooter from Yamaha gets real
At last! There’s already a few electric scooters on the market, but they’re mostly chinese, which is a bit of a surprise. Because even if God rides a Harley, the kings of the motorcycle industry are...
View ArticleA plug-in hybrid from Honda in 2012
With 3 hybrids in its line-up, Honda is clearly a strong believer in hybrid technology. But that’s not enough for some people, who think Honda’s system, called IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) is inferior...
View ArticleThe fantastic Zerotracer, a 180-mph electric revolution
Is it a car? Is it a bike? The Zerotracer is hard to define, but we know one thing: it’s fast. It can go beyond 180-mph! As it is still a work in progress, the engineers have electronically limited it...
View ArticleGrandeur in downsizing, that’s BMW with its new K1600
We talk often about the new trend in engine design, I mean downsizing, or the replacement of a low-tech large displacement engine by a high tech small displacement one. Ford might be one of the most...
View ArticleQuadro 4D, when 2 wheels are not enough on a scooter, just add 2 more
Piaggio introduced a 3-wheeled scooter 2 years ago, and real bikers looked down on it. They will have an even worse opinion of this one, because it has FOUR wheels. It’s called the Quadro 4D, and it...
View ArticleGreen cars in Italy – Part 2 – The Bologna motor show
The Bologna motor show is the largest in Italy, with more than 700,000 visitors each year, and Italy is a big automotive market with more than 2 millions new car sales each year. But that might not be...
View ArticleBMW E-Scooter, with a load-bearing battery case, the first modern electric...
After the failure of Vectrix, the world is still waiting for a well-made electric motorbike that would also be a good performer on the road. The Chinese are working on the lower end of the market, BMW...
View ArticleHybrid race cars and electric Yamaha mopeds for Toyota’s drivers at Le Mans...
For a race driver, it’s always better to work for a large car manufacturer, because besides a paycheck, he will get several advantages, like a company car. There will be something more for the upcoming...
View ArticleWith Govecs and Cooltra, the electric scooter enters a new dimension
German manufacturer Govecs is not very well known yet, nor is Cooltra, a Spanish company. The first builds electric scooters, and the second rents scooters all around Spain. The two companies were...
View ArticleYamaha wants to get into the three-wheel scooter market
Some say they’re weird because scooters should not have more than two wheels, but Piaggio doesn’t care. It invented the three-wheel scooter, and it has been very successful selling it to urban dwellers...
View ArticleThe police may like it, the BMW C evolution electric scooter
It’s a big difference between the U.S. and Germany. BMW manufactures expensive vehicles for customers in America, and this is also true in Germany, but BMW is also known in its home market as a...
View ArticleHero Leap, the world’s first mass-produced plug-in hybrid scooter, from India
The world has already seen many prototypes of hybrid two-wheelers, and a three-wheeler, the Piaggio MP3 hybrid is on sale in Europe, but this is the first hybrid scooter which could be mass-produced....
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