"You may win [people's] minds and hearts through the understanding of what an electric vehicle can bring to them. You then have to win their pocketbooks as well." The Obama administration is helping ...

With interest in alternative-energy vehicles reaching an unprecedented fever pitch, Vectrix couldn’t have timed its arrival any more perfectly. Its new Vectrix Maxi Scooter, which has been in the ...

Bay Area zero-emission advocates got their first test ride Thursday on a zippy new all-electric motor scooter that can take two commuters on a silent freeway ride that will cost them just pennies in ...

December 17, 2006 While the established players in the scooter game have shown concept machinery in the fuel cell, electric and hybrid genres, there’s one European company that has been quietly going ...

When you think "electric" and "scooter" together, you think of something shrink-wrapped, made in China and bought at a toy store. Well, the Vectrix is none of that. It goes 62 mph, has a claimed range ...

Not all the good and green ideas can make through in a world where competitiveness must be also mixed with a dash of luck and some other “magic” ingredients, and seeing electric scooter manufacturer ...

Think "electric vehicle" and what springs to mind? Something whining, ugly and slow, like a golf cart or milk float? I thought the same, but my horizons have recently been expanded by a test ride on ...

If you're opposed to traffic congestion, pollution of the environment, hassles with finding a parking place, structured public transportation that doesn't suit your schedule and high gas prices you'll ...

September 17, 2007 It’s a special sort of road test when you get to try out not only a brand new bike, but one of the first viable examples of a whole different engine technology. Loz Blain and Noel ...

Over the past month we’ve covered reviews of every major electric motorcycle available on the market today, including reviews of the 2011 Brammo Enertia, 2011 Zero S and 2011 Zero DS. Now it’s the ...

The world’s first high-performance electric scooter hits cobblestone piazzas this January. Vectrix’s VP of technology, Peter Hughes, and Rob Brady of Robrady design deconstruct their ride. The world’s ...

An electric scooter is most likely one of the few items still missing from the roster of notorious small-vehicle manufacturer smart. And since smart wants a ice piece of zero local emission machinery, ...