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Arcimoto's Pulse, the electric motorcycle for those who want to drive a space ship

National Green Transportation

The Arcimoto is an electric three wheeled electric motorcycle sporting an enclosed cabin reminding some of space ships. Arcimoto attended the recent CleanTech and PlugIn 2010 conferences in San Jose, showing their 3rd prototype, where this writer was able to talk with them.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Our EAASV group had a tour of the Lightning facility in San Jose and a field trip to the company’s new location in Hollister a couple of years ago,” Pohorsky said. That was quite a conversion.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. San Jose Mercury News ). 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. If that target is met, the largest U.S. Bloomberg News ).

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