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Zongshen signals intent to invest in Mission Motors
veebruar 4, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Mission Motors Mission One – Click above for high-res image gallery

Powerhouse Chinese motorcycle manufacturer Zonghshen has signaled its intent to invest in California-basedMission Motors. At this point, nothing more than a letter of intent has been signed, but the deal would give Zongshen access to Mission’s proprietary electric drivetrain technology as well as allow Mission access into the Asian markets and give the start-up a fresh injection of cash.

Before any deal takes place, Zongshen has requested a full three-year business plan from Mission, due before the end of the month. If all goes well – which is still a very large ‘if’ at this point – some sort of deal could be completed by June of this year.

AutoblogGreen

=> Zongshen signals intent to invest in Mission Motors.

Rubriigid: E-rattad | Rollerid | Motikad
Sildistatud: Investeeringud
BikeAsia Turns Into Green Mobility Event
veebruar 3, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

SINGAPORE – Having reached its third edition, the concept of BikeAsia is overhauled completely. Initially started as a two-wheeler show, it will now present the modern green mobility: two-wheel zero emission vehicles, hybrid and electric motorcycles and scooters, power-assisted bicycles, as well as traditional bicycles and accessories such as batteries.

BikeAsia 2010, taking place in Singapore from Friday 21 to Sunday 23 May is taking this huge step by concentrating on vehicles that will provide mobility in the future. It will not just present products and concepts but it will be a cultural event.

“The products will not be exhibited as people are used to in the industry”, said Jermaine Tan of BikeAsia. “No fair with one booth for each exhibitor, but one enormous stand where each exhibitor will present their main product or products using unusual forms: igloos, containers, curved walls, totems. One of the main advantages is that participating in BikeAsia will cost just a fraction of what you would pay to exhibit in a traditional event.

“BikeAsia is set to become the annual event to see, propose, and debate on pollution-free mobility. An exhibition-convention, an entirely new event accompanied by a high-level Forum.”

Singapore is called as the ideal workshop for the use and study of electrical vehicles because of the small, densely populated country, with an average distance covered of less than 55 kilometre per day, per vehicle, a robust and wide-reaching electrical and ITC industry and with local authorities committed to supporting the development of necessary infrastructures.

Bike Europe – Website for Bike Professionals

=> BikeAsia Turns Into Green Mobility Event.

Rubriigid: E-rattad | Rollerid | Motikad
Jackie Chan hakkab müüma Brammo elektrimootorrattaid
veebruar 2, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

JHan

Tuntud Hong Kongi näitleja Jackie Chan’i osalusel tegutsev firma JCAM Advanced Mobility Company Ltd. hakkab Hong Kong’is ja Singapuris Brammo elektrimootorrataste edasimüüjaks, edastab Plugbike.

Juba varem tegutses sama firma Segway personaalsõidukite müüjana Lõuna-Koreas, Hiinas, Hong Kong’is, Macau’s, Malaisias, Singapuris, Vietanamis, Filipiinidel ja Indoneesias.

Selles valguses ei tule üllatusena ka teade, et Chan’i uusimas filmis “Chinese Zodiac” on üheks ekraanil vilksatavaks sõiduriistaks Brammo Enertia elektrimootorratas.

MOTOMAANIA

=> Jackie Chan hakkab müüma Brammo elektrimootorrattaid.

Rubriigid: E-rattad | Rollerid | Motikad
Sildistatud: Brammo
Roehri elektrimootorrattad sõidavad golfikäru mootoritega
jaanuar 29, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Fotol Röhr 1250 cc superbike (sisepõlemismootoriga)Fotol Röhr 1250 cc superbike (sisepõlemismootoriga)

USA mootorrattatootja on avaldanud täiendavat teavet oma elektrimootoriga bike’de kohta, praeguseks on teada, et mõlemad mudelid saavad endale golfikäru jõuallikad.

Tegu on 35-kilovatiste mootoritega firmalt Hi Performance Golf Cars.

Kui Roehr eSupersport saab endale ühe mootori, siis eSuperbike aga kaks jõuallikat.

Akude tootjaks on Hiina firma Headways.

Rahulikult liikudes peaksid mõlemad masinad läbima kuni 130 miili ühe laadimisega, masinate maksimaalkiirus on vastavalt 130 ja 150 miili tunnis.

Mootorrataste hinnad algavad lihtsama mudeli puhul 15 000 dollarist ning keerukama mudeli puhul 30 000 dollarist. Müügile peaks masinad jõudma aprillikuus.

MOTOMAANIA

=> Roehri elektrimootorrattad sõidavad golfikäru mootoritega.

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Sildistatud: Röhr
Folded e-bikes coming
jaanuar 29, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar
db0 (divided by nothing) E bike by DK City & ROBRADY
Yes, seems like “Folding Bike” is the flavor of the season, so I won’t bore you with any witty comments. However what makes the db0 (divided by nothing) E bike different from the rest of the gang is that it’s soon to be available this first quarter. So those lusting after folding hybrid cycles, hit the jump to catch the specs of this beauty!

via http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/01/27/yet-another-folding-bike/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+yankodesign+(Yanko+Design+-+Form+Beyond+Function)&utm_content=Google+Reader


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Peugeot’s incredibly frugal electric E-Vivacity scooter
jaanuar 29, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Peugeot E-Vivacity electric scooter has a 4kW engine equal to that of a 50cc scooter, but ... Peugeot E-Vivacity electric scooter has a 4kW engine equal to that of a 50cc scooter, but its running costs will be one tenth as much – roughly EUR 0.4 per 100 km. So if you cover 4,000 kms annually, running costs will be EUR 16 (US$22.67)

Peugeot mass produced the first electric scooter 15 years ago and it’s just about to launch another. Way back in 1996, the 40 km range of the Peugeot Scoot’Elec produced a chorus of yawns but when the new E-Vivacity hits showrooms late this year, it will be greeted by a much wiser and ecologically-aware public. Emissions aside, the biggest motivating factor behind the E-Vivacity’s likely sales success will be its remarkably low cost of use. Though its 4kW engine is the equal of a frugal 50cc scooter, its running costs will be one tenth as it recharges from a domestic powerpoint at regular tarrifs. In Paris where its 100 km range will be more than adequate, that will equate to EUR 0.4 (about US$0.56) per 100 km. So if you cover the yearly average scooter distance of 4,000 kms, total running costs will be EUR 16 (US$22.67)!

Gizmag

http://www.gizmag.com/peugeots-incredibly-frugal-electric-e-vivacity-scooter/13967/

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E-Bike Elected as 2010 Dutch Bike of the Year
jaanuar 28, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – For the second consecutive year the jury awarded an e-Bike as the Dutch Bike of the Year. Yesterday, at the trade show FietsVak Wouter Jager (photo) MD of Koga-Miyata was handed over this prestigious award for the Koga Miyata E-Light.

The jury has not only chosen the Koga Miyata E-Light for its electrical support, but mainly as a proof of a fine combination between a sportive bike and electric support. The E-Light is equipped with high-end components only, while the relatively low weight of 23.5 kilograms presents extra comfort to the rider.

Next to the Koga E-Light, two other bikes got a Special Award, the Gazelle Ultimate Excellent and the Giant Techno RS1. In their overall report the jury noticed that product managers have been paying more and more attention to the safety of the bike and its rider. The bike lighting and brake systems in general have become more sophisticated. Almost all bikes participating in the election were equipped with LED front and rear lighting in combination with a hub dynamo. The traditional wheel dynamo has almost entirely disappeared from the Dutch market.

Bike Europe – Website for Bike Professionals

=> E-Bike Elected as 2010 Dutch Bike of the Year.

Rubriigid: E-rattad | Rollerid | Motikad
Sildistatud: Netherlands
Gaining a Toehold for the E-Bike
jaanuar 22, 2010 · Lisa kommentaar

Electric bicycles — a regular pedal-driven bike with a motor for steeper slopes and an optional extra boost — is an idea that has been around for more than a century. But while e-bikes have caught on in certain parts of the world, particularly China, where tens of millions are sold each year, they have never quite captured the imagination of auto-obsessed Americans.

That may be about to change. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, Sanyo, the Japanese electronics maker and a major producer of car batteries, showed off a sleek, lightweight e-bike called the Eneloop Hybrid Bicycle.

The Eneloop, priced at $2,300, came to stores in the United States late last year. It operates like any normal bike and, save for the black lithium-ion battery strapped to the frame beneath the seat, looks exactly like one as well. But when you press a button on the left handlebar, a 250-watt motor gently kicks in, providing about twice the power as your own pedaling — and making you feel like Lance Armstrong on even the steepest slopes.

“The average auto trip in the U.S. is five miles or less,” said David Cabanban, bicycle business manager at Sanyo North America. “At the end of the day, how do you lower pollution and get people healthy? We’ve got to get people back to riding bikes.”

For years, e-bike proponents have argued that these machines can get people to abandon their cars and cut down on pollution, all without working up the unsightly sweat acquired when biking to work. But early e-bikes were never very good.

In the 1990s, people like Lee Iacocca and Malcolm Currie, the former chief executive of Hughes Aircraft, got into the e-bike business. Their bikes had heavy steel frames and the same lead acid batteries used in automobiles, which themselves could weigh 80 pounds. The entire Eneloop weights about 50 pounds.

Those older e-bikes (many were more like electric mopeds) often needed repairs and service. And their regulatory status was ambiguous — were they motorcycles? bikes? — so many retailers were afraid to sell them. The federal government resolved the legal obstacle with legislation in 2002, classifying any two-wheel, pedal-driven bike with a maximum speed of 20 miles an hour as a bike, which does not need turn signals or licensed riders.

New technology has addressed the other obstacles. Lead acid batteries have given way to efficient and lighter lithium-ion batteries.

The earliest e-bikes of the 1990s got about 15 miles on a single charge. The Eneloop’s battery can power the bike about 46 miles before it needs to be plugged into an outlet and recharged for around three hours; it also partially recharges when the rider brakes or coasts downhill.

Other e-bike makers brag about similar performance.

“If it wasn’t for the lithium battery I wouldn’t be in this business. It’s made this category possible,” said Marcus Hays, founder of Pi Mobility, a company in Sausalito, Calif., whose red, angular bikes cost $2,500 and can operate as a bike, a moped or both at the same time.

E-bike makers in the United States saw something of a mini-boom in 2008, when gasoline prices spiked and people started looking for eco-friendly alternatives to the automobile.

Some basic e-bike models, like the Ezip Trailz by Currie Technologies, now sell for as low as $500. Trek and Schwinn, traditional bike makers, both began selling e-bikes last year, the latter in conjunction with Toshiba.

E-bike makers say that some of the stigma surrounding the bikes — critics see them as a tool to avoid actual exercise — has faded.

“Four years ago, we encountered many people saying, ‘Oh wow, we are so lazy, we need motors on our bikes’ ” said Scott Shaw, president of EcoBike USA, an e-bike maker in Southern California. “Now people are understanding and saying, this is more a utilitarian vehicle for commuting and getting outside on two wheels rather than four.”

RETAILERS have also sensed the growing opportunity. Big-box stores like Wal-Mart, Sears and Costco have dabbled in the category for about a decade. Last year, Best Buystarted selling e-bikes experimentally in three test markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore.

E-bikes, like regular bikes, still face plenty of challenges. In many parts of the world, biking is an important form of transportation; in the United States it is seen primarily as recreation. Many major cities still do not have bike lanes, and the most important sales channel in the industry — independent bike shops — has been shrinking for more than a decade.

But there may be a greater challenge for companies like Sanyo and other e-bike makers. People tend to think of their transportation, like their clothes or cellphones, as an expression of their identity.

In China, riding an electric bike conveys professional achievement, even a certain degree of wealth. People in the United States, said Ed Benjamin, an independent consultant in the bike business, don’t quite know whether these bikes are fashionable. The e-bike is “an ambiguous statement,” Mr. Benjamin said.

The next few years, he said, could bring higher prices for gasoline and airline tickets. “We have to make some fundamental changes, and e-bikes can be a part of that,” he said.

via NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/business/17ping.html

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