#alternative vehicles

[diagnozabam]

KG Mobility dezvoltă un motor termic alimentat cu hidrogen: Autonomie de peste 500 km

KG Mobility, cunoscut anterior ca SsangYong, a anunțat că va dezvolta motoare alimentate cu hidrogen. Constructorul sud-coreean își propune să producă un motor care să ofere o autonomie mai mare de 500 de kilometri. Parteneriat pentru dezvoltarea unui motor cu hidrogen KG Mobility urmează să înceapă în curând dezvoltarea primului său motor alimentat cu hidrogen. Marca asiatică este implicată în…

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Couldn't find his dream popup micro-camper, built it instead

Couldn’t find his dream popup micro-camper, built it instead

Jurgen Jas makes things- a mini Smart bike/car for his nephew, a fully-furnished mini-camper for another, a backyard workshop and many Bowers-&-Wilkins-inspired speakers for himself- so when he couldn’t find a popup micro-camper that he liked, he built one.

Beginning with just a donated chassis, he began to built all the components of his future micro mobile home. “I have been a carpenter for a…

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$150 bike camper: DIY micro mobile home (downloadable plans)

$150 bike camper: DIY micro mobile home (downloadable plans)

Paul Elkins fell for micro-camping in 2002 when he toured the country in his cabover “stealth camper”. Sure he could make something more affordable, this year he began building a nomadic micro-shelter based on the Airstream design. [Downloadable plans: http://www.elkinsdiy.com/plans/ ]

Using 4 recycled fluted-plastic campaign signs from a recent election, a $20 secondhand bike, 6 pine boards ($1…

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A Wild Ride: Amazing Future Sports Vehicles - #JiJi #JiJiBlog - New Lifehack on JiJi.ng Blog

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A Wild Ride: Amazing Future Sports Vehicles

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Peapod Mobility

Anything that inches us away from hauling ourselves -- solo -- around in two-tonne hunks of plastic, metal, and whatever else goes into a car, is a good thing. So on Earth Day you can order a Peapod, from Chrysler. It's a GEM car, the kind of neighbourhood car used in gated communities, souped-up golf carts. (At the Alternative Fuels and Vehicles Expo in Florida April 19 and 22 you can check out a GEM, booth 611.) It's great how Peapod Mobility's director calls it "an appliance" in the New York Times Wheels Blog. Why? Mmmmm, it assumes a usefulness, that it has a sole function -- like a washer machine -- and should be used accordingly. You got garden waste? Not easy to haul on a bike (although I do so with a bike trailer). Want to stock up during the grocery store's case lot sale? Okay, I get the grocery store to deliver to my house. Um, gotta haul your kid to school with an unwieldy project, haul their gear to a gig, get your very old dog to the vet, sick grandpa to the doctor? Sometimes you need an appliance for that. In Canada, at least three provinces have OK'd the use of mobility appliances on some roads: Quebec, British Columbia, and Ontario. Quebec has its own mobility appliance, the Zenn. But Peter Arnell, Peapod Mobility's director, also called the Peapod an iPod on wheels because this newer GEM model is a design improvement over the older models that looked like golf carts. "We want to evolve the design language to an eco-iconic one. The idea is something that is charming and brings joy," Arnell told the NY Times. While it might not appeal to everyone, the Peapod is joyful in the way Volkswagen Beetles used to be. And good design can change people's habits -- just look at newspaper redesigns in Eastern Europe. And it is what makes Apple so successful (and expensive.)