Submitted by Board Moderator on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 00:06
GM's Billion-Dollar Bet
The hydrogen car has been a long time coming. GM is betting $1 billion that the end of internal combustion is near.
By Dan Baum
VIEWED from the proper angle, Detroit's Renaissance Center - six medium-high office towers surrounding a cylindrical 73-story giant - is a mighty glass hand giving the finger. Hulking by the iron-gray waters of the Detroit River, this is the führerbunker of the tired old industrial economy: the headquarters of General Motors.
Submitted by Board Moderator on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 23:53
China's Cyclists Take Charge
By: Peter Fairley
It's 8 a.m. and Shanghai is moving.
For the cars and trucks crammed together on the elevated highway cutting through downtown, it's a slow crawl. On the smaller roads below, traffic is rolling at a steady 10 to 15 kilometers per hour in what looks like a more traditional Chinese street scene. Vying with the cars and trucks for the same strip of pavement are a motley assortment of two- and three-wheeled vehicles—everything from simple steel-frame bikes and heavily laden pedal-powered carts to motorized scooters.
Submitted by Board Moderator on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 08:44
Fire closes Warming Hut
Electric car outside Crissy Field cafe bursts into flames
- Chuck Squatriglia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, January 26, 2007
(01-26) 13:25 PST -- An electric vehicle parked outside the Warming Hut at Crissy Field caught fire early this morning, damaging the popular cafe and gift shop so severely that it will remain closed for several weeks while the National Park Service makes repairs.
this is a Pre-production test bike i made last year, the Ex-Volt1500 is much faster.
i cant post a vid of it couse the bike in the youtube vid dropped my camera when it was mounted tof the bike cam mount. either way it would have broke couse it was at high speed that day and may have vibrated loose
Submitted by Board Moderator on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 12:08
Well I just had a new retension bar made to replace the mild steel retension bar that came with the bike. It was the 2nd retension bar I went through. The motor kept overcoming the two nut retainers and drilled out the retension bars. When I took the retension bar to the metal shop they actually laughed at it. The were laughing at the quality of the metal for the job it was to perform. Very bad design they said. The new retension bar is about three times as heavy and fits the axel to a tighter tolerance and is thicker.
Now the question is what will far apart next. Smile