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Guest post: Honda Introduces the EV-Cub; two-wheel-drive electric motorcycle

Green Car Congress

And that’s exactly what the company has been focusing on lately in the world of motorcycles. Honda has been making and selling a motorcycle called the Cub for decades. Mostly sold in emerging markets around the world as an urban commuter, the Cub is a very small motorcycle with an equally small engine. Honda calls it the LOOP.

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Honda unveils demonstration test house featuring Honda smart home system; gas, solar power and electromobility

Green Car Congress

The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) thin-film solar cell panels; a home battery unit (rechargeable battery); household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system; and the Smart e Mix Manager.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

Afterwards, we posted pictures on our Facebook page and I had people calling me for more information. In 2006, desiring an electric motorcycle with lithium batteries, he found a start-up EV motorcycle manufacturer using acid batteries and gave the firm a special order. “I I was essentially an active customer,” he said. “I

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

Afterwards, we posted pictures on our Facebook page and I had people calling me for more information. In 2006, desiring an electric motorcycle with lithium batteries, he found a start-up EV motorcycle manufacturer using acid batteries and gave the firm a special order. “I I was essentially an active customer,” he said. “I

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Charley Boorman: myenergi HQ

My Energi

The best electric motorcycles in the UK to buy now. Like all things Zero Motorcycles, form follows function. – Livewire offers seven selectable Ride Modes that electronically control the performance characteristics of the motorcycle. Zero SR/F – The SR/F is the world’s first fully “smart” motorcycle.

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InDEED, a success

Electric Auto Association

Other EAA chapters hosted virtual happy hours and coffee chats, investigated solar-powered EVs, and learned about the latest charging, financing, and permitting information in states around the country. DEED event on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. Later, in graduate school at Virginia Tech, he became part of a group of engineers who visited local schools to help enhance the STEM curriculum with hands-on building of solar electric and small motor project activities. “We

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