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Sep 5, 2012
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What 213mph feels like all electric

Eva Hakansson of KillaCycle hit 213 miles per hour in the KillaJoule, an electric streamliner motorcycle, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.  Here’s video showing what that’s like. Note: she says most of the noise you’re hearing here is the chain drive, since the electric doesn’t make much noise.

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May 22, 2012
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The Lawless Rocket Beats 200mph!

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The Lawless Orange County Chopper Rocket, ridden by Larry “Spiderman” McBride, pulled off more than a world record electric drag racing run for a motorcycle, but for electric dragsters of all types by getting better than 200 miles per hour. The Rocket became the first electric drag racing vehicle to break a 6-second quarter mile …
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Apr 25, 2012
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GM Roomba WTF Redux

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General Motors has released another conceptual take on the ENV, calling it the ENV 2.0. The first time we saw the EN-V was in 2010 when GM partnered with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway (ya, the scooter people) to release this idea. At that time, I compared these to Roomba vacuums. They had …
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Apr 12, 2012
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Yet Again, Politics Get In the Way.. or do they?

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CODA Automotive has announced that they’re abandoning plans to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Columbus, Ohio.  This because long delays have made it clear that the Department of Energy (DOE) will not likely act on their $500-million loan application for the project. The Columbus Dispatch blames the issue on the DOE, the administration, and …
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Apr 12, 2012
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Smart – Bohemian Rhapsody

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Mar 12, 2012
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Remember that Masterpiece of British Engineering? It Broke Again

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Back when it debuted in December, the new Routemaster bus, designed completely in the United Kingdom and touted as a “masterpiece of British engineering“, broke down on its maiden voyage because those Brit engineers forgot to put fuel in it. Now, just a couple of months after its debut, the bus is in the news …
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