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Heybike HERO review: The biggest, chunkiest carbon fiber fat tire e-bike you’ve ever seen

Electrek

One of the beautiful things about the state of the electric bicycle industry currently being in the equivalent of the 1920s car market is that you’ve got around a hundred different e-bike companies all trying new and crazy things with sometimes wildly divergent design concepts.

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Renault and TheArsenale unveil AIR4 electric flying showcar

Green Car Congress

The vehicle, entirely made of carbon-fiber, maintains the same lines and contained mass of the original 4L, yet presenting new dynamic capabilities. The rigidity has been completely revised to include new concepts such as thrust or lift, which required hours of calculations and tests. To drive around, AIR4 has no wheels.

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Teijin joins AZL Partner Network for Lightweight Production Technology

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The network is launching one of their many joint projects today—an eight-month project to develop and manufacture multi-material battery enclosures for electric vehicles. A component concept will be elaborated in detail. © AZL Aachen GmbH. . © AZL Aachen GmbH.

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Toyota and Clemson showcase Gen-Z focused EV concept at SAE World Congress

Green Car Congress

At the 2016 SAE World Congress, Toyota and Clemson University unveiled an innovative, flexible concept called uBox that is intended to appeal to the next generation of car buyers: Gen-Z. The roof pultrusion was something unexpected and very interesting when they first started talking about the concept.

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12 things to know about next-gen Honda EVs arriving in 2026

Baua Electric

Last week at CES in Las Vegas, Honda provided a first look at future EV models planned for 2026 with the Saloon and Space-Hub concepts. Honda Saloon Concept – 2024 CES Sized in the middle of Honda’s EV future. Honda declined to quote dimensions for the concepts, but they appeared to be in the vicinity of 190 inches long.

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$15M Visio.M project seeking to maximize light weight and safety in an urban EV

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consortium is developing a mobility concept for an efficient electric vehicle, making the design as light as possible while still delivering the best possible safety protection. The basis for the project is the MUTE electric research vehicle, developed by TUM. A prototype vehicle on the track from the Visio.M Click to enlarge.

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E-bike maker sees space for bare-bones electric car in congested cities

Green Car Reports

A Danish bicycle and e-bike company, Biomega, has shown an open-wheel concept car that takes the sculpted, less-is-more ideas of Scandinavian design to new extremes—to what may be a regulatory impossibility in the U.S.

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