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Amazon takes heat for selling devices to hot-rod electric bikes for more speed

Electrek

Motorcycles get aftermarket sprockets. Now one of the latest forms of speed hacking has targeted electric bikes , and Amazon is getting raked over the coals for helping provide the goods to illegally hot-rod those e-bikes. It’s a tale as old as time, humans finding ways to boost the speed of their rides. Cars get chipped.

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Honda to show EV concept with AI emotion engine from joint project with Softbank

Green Car Congress

KHI) announced it was moving forward with plans to develop next-generation motorcycles that have a personality and can grow along with the rider. The motorcycles being developed will also use the “Emotion Generation Engine and Natural Language Dialogue System” being developed by cocoro SB.

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Why Do Japanese Automakers Like Hydrogen Power?

The Truth About Cars

While this is supposed to encompass construction equipment, small boats, airborne drones, and even motorcycles, the scheme doesn’t seem to focus on automobiles. Presently, the vast majority of hydrogen is produced using coal or natural gas as feedstocks. But such a breakthrough seems a long way off.

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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

Green Car Congress

million gas-fueled motorcycles and tricycles are currently operating in the Philippines, typically serving as short-distance taxis, with the average tricycle driver earning less than $10 a day. E-Trike drivers will save upwards of $5 a day in fuel costs, and the new E-Trikes have the capacity to carry more passengers.

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ExxonMobil predicts peak in light-duty vehicle liquid fuels ~2030, but ongoing role for oil in the mix

Green Car Congress

Rising incomes will increase demand for personal mobility in the form of cars and motorcycles, the report projects. Motorcycles, which offer a lower-cost entry point to personal mobility, will see particularly high ownership in Asia Pacific, although the region will also lead significant growth in car ownership. C scenarios to 2040.

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Tesla Model X Family Road Trip…Pandemic Edition

EV Match

As I’ve detailed before, special considerations need be made, even in a relatively long-range EV like our 2018 Model X, and more attention has to be paid to planning electrified road trips than coal-rolling ones. That said, we did not skimp on the degree of difficulty, lugging not one but four bikes on our hitch-mounted rack.

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India’s Report Card Against Short List Of Climate Actions Is Better Than Most Realize

CleanTechnica EVs

For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s.

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