Earth Ships- “Off The Grid” November 12, 2008

Take a tour through a unique community in Taos, New Mexico. It features eco-friendly homes that are built with discarded materials, and they’re also “off the grid.” That means they’re totally energy independent. How cool is that? Earthship founder Mike Reynolds is the man behind this new crave.

Earthship Biotecture, based in Taos, NM, USA is a global company offering proven, totally sustainable designs, construction drawings & details, products, educational materials, lectures / presentations, consultation & guidance toward getting people in sustainable housing. From single family to colony / community / city complexes

Go to there site at www.earthship.net

Eva Håkansson – with passion for electric drive November 11, 2008

Welcome to my world of powerful, mean, green machines

-Eva Håkansson.

Eva Håkansson’s Electrocat Electric Motorcycle

The bike above is Electrocat, and the rider is Eva Håkansson. She has built Electrocat with her father, Sven Håkansson, and it is one of the first street-legal electric motorcycles in Sweden. It is based on a Cagiva Freccia C12R model year 1990, but it runs completely on batteries, My question is, why there are not a lot more people building bikes such as this. There are so many bikes on the road today that are still running on fossil fuels. As battery technology improves I look ford to all the new electric powered vehicles being produced.  The road is just a plugin away.

In the picture above you can see the Electrocat’s “Thunder Sky litihum-iron-phosphate cells and the original Briggs & Stratton Etek motor”. charging this beast takes no longer then 7 hours and the charge lasts for 80 km (50 miles) per charge at 70 km/h (44 mph). You can learn more about the Electrocat on Eva’s great website.