Best Buy Switches Off Sales of Electric Bikes

May 30, 2011 No Comments by

Less then a year ago, Best Buy was enthusiastic about its selection of electric vehicles. But now the company recently decided to cease the sales of most battery powered bikes and scooters. So what happened?

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Delivery with some Seoul

Jan 11, 2010 1 Comment by

When I lived in Korea during the mid-90s, one of the simple pleasures in life was having everything delivered.  Whether it was the yogurt lady, adorned in yellow vinyl in case the tropical monsoon storms suddenly unleashed their fury; the dry cleaning cantor (when he came to our building, I thought he was loudly chanting [...]

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Stop or I’ll plug in!

Jan 06, 2010 1 Comment by

I was amused when someone passed on this story of what some park rangers in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands are using to foil bikers who are off-roading illegally.  They are riding what you may be seeing a lot more of in the next decade:  the electric motorcycle.   Electric motorcycles are a [...]

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An EV Solution with Two Wheels?

Dec 08, 2009 No Comments by

Oh, to be a fly in the wall in Denmark right now with all the attention foisted on it due to the COP15 summit in Copenhagen.  There are many reasons why Denmark is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference.  The country has been successfully weaning its way off of fossil-based fuels since the 1970s.  Denmark [...]

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