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Revolutionizing rider safety: The protective jacket every e-biker should consider

Baua Electric

If there’s an electric motorcycle, e-bike, scooter, or anything else remotely rideable out there, I’ve probably thrown a leg over it at least once. Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to learn how each type of vehicle comes with its own unique personality and enjoyment, but also its own risk profile. Anyway, I digress.

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

Green Car Congress

The current (as of 3 December 2015) approved participants in the California program in addition to Ford are: Volkswagen Group of America; Mercedes Benz; Google; Delphi Automotive; Tesla Motors; Bosch; Nissan; Cruise Automation; BMW; and Honda. Autonomous Ford Fusion outside the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

announced its second Electric Vehicle Testing Program, this one with Saitama Prefecture for its next-generation personal mobility products, including electric vehicles (EVs); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); electric scooters; and electric carts. The Saitama program will focus on motorcycles, automobiles and power products.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

If someone googled me, they’d think I was some kind of radical environmentalist.” When the meetings are in person, it gives me an excuse to go to Kansas City.” Of late, vehicles owned by club members range from electric autos to trucks to motorcycles to tractors, some of the latter variety converted to snow plows in the winter.

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Testing the Rowwet electric scooter : Eleq

Plug In India

They have 4 models of electric scooters and also plan to launch some motorcycles. I googled and 1500 F capacitors are available. That was so unnatural for a person who is on cycles most of the time. That segment will be dominated by motorcycles for some time to come. Here are my thoughts. 1 Ah is 3600 Coulomb.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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