Computer geeks and tree-hugging environmentalists driving the electron-powered vehicles are starting to kick some major rear end. Scotty Pollacheck and his bike -- dubbed the KillaCycle -- are part of a growing movement that's exploiting breakthroughs in battery technology and could soon challenge the world's fastest-accelerating vehicles in the $1 billion drag-racing industry. (Times Leader)
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VROOM, KillaCycle Turns Heads
Category: Environment • Technology • Transportation
Posted on: August 1, 2007 12:26 PM, by EJGili
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The major stumbling block to both electricity powered personal transportation, and wind and photovoltaic based power systems in buildings, is not the generation source, but the storage medium. Solve that, technically and economically, and the energy problem is largely fixed.
Posted by: Obdulantist | August 2, 2007 02:24 AM