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Legal in New York

What kind of small electric scooter is legal in New York (without a driver's license)? Does anyone know?

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A Noble Cause; Project Freedom

Hello friends,
I do enjoy this forum and find that is filled with useful information and plenty of active and useful members, which is why;

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Electricity VS Gas Price, Electric vehicles VS Gasoline vehicles

Interested in an EV?
Compare electricity and gas prices here to see how much you can save. Though the cost of the battery pack is far more than the fuel, it pays to check the prices. We need to define the units of comparison first.
Price Units for Comparison

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Electric cars

We all get these emails was wondering if its true???

Cost to operate a Chevy Volt

Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel ' s Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.

For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.

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My new LiFePO4 battery and charger

Hi people,

I am a newbie to the Forum and also a bit of a dummy regarding electrification of bikes?

Give me an old V8 Chevy small block and I´ll strip and rebuild, no problem. To each his own!!

Long story short, I bought a Giant Cruiser beach bike, fitted with a Crystalyte Phoenix 5303 Racer rear hub motor (48 volt, 40 amp.= 1920 watts) and an absolute rubbish Chinese LiFePO4 battery, the size of a truck SLA, that collapsed after two weeks!

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I have always been a person can be enjoyed.

The leg of a contraction, the other leg is hard Yi Deng, wholesale designer handbags and finally emerge from his grasp, busy stricken slide column angle, opened and his distance, said: "That night, is compelling ...... I do not want to sorry for Ayu, you do not come ... "

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Trikke Pon-e 48v Human/electric hybrid vehicle

Just to disclose, I am an employee of the Trikke company. That said, I am also an avid rider of both the strictly body powered line of vehicles, and the electric line of vehicles. I personally use one of the Trikke Pon-e 48v for my daily commute to work to save gas and reduce my carbon footprint. Simply said, I love, LOVE, my pon-e.

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reikiman's picture

Calling all electric vehicle heretics ...

To fix the transportation system, do we really need to swap electric cars for gasoline cars?

If the only problem is oil supply & global warming then maybe all we need do is change the drive train in the cars and keep on driving cars.

I believe highways are ugly. I believe highways are a poor use of land. Fact is that each car requires 7 or more parking spaces set aside for it, which means tying up a lot of land with asphalt covering that could be put to better uses.

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Electric Cars, Electric Motorcycles and plug-in Hybrid cars coming in 2012

2011 was pretty exciting for electric vehicles. Looking forward to 2012 the field looks to be even more amazing.

A look at the electric cars coming in 2012
http://www.torquenews.com/1075/look-electric-cars-coming-2012

Faster and longer range electric motorcycles coming in 2012
http://www.torquenews.com/1075/look-electric-motorcycles-coming-2012

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Lithium battery troubleshooting and repair.

Lithium ion battery reuse with testing and repairing. This article can help those with Lithiumitis, the dreaded weak battery illness that will affect all of us in time. Lithium battery technology is great, but expensive, hard to repair and limited life if abused. I have used SLA for years with WE kits and they are great but heavy, limited life and capacity drops off steadily even when charged religiously.
I have been taking used lithium batteries and reject factory batteries and repairing them and using them for over two years on two bikes. The problems are:

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