There’s been plenty of lip service paid to electric vehicles in recent years, but the fact remains that in many communities, they’re still more frequently discussed than actually seen. Not so in several U.S. neighborhoods, however, where golf carts and other diminutive electric vehicles are part of the very fabric of community life writes trendspotter […]
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Washington Post: What a profile they cut, slicing through the city: gorgeous, exotic, dangerous. You see them parked like emaciated steeds outside the coolest clubs. We are talking about a bicycle. A very special kind of road bicycle, called a fixed-gear bike, or fixie for short. A fixie has one speed, which makes it difficult
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TampaBay.com: Work starts at 6 a.m., but your first-grader’s school starts at 8:05. He’ll have to stand at a crowded bus stop with kids twice his size, while you’re at the office, wondering if he’s still alive. It’s enough to make a mom reach for her wallet. That’s what Karina DaSilva and a growing number
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Reuters: Indignant letters, e-mails and phone calls can still get results for unhappy airline travelers, but more are finding that if you really want to vent your frustrations, you can now be loud and fast and public. At least that’s the buzz on Twitter, where airlines are discovering that fuming passengers who have been stranded,
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WKYT.com: It’s not all bad news for the auto industry. The repair shops are booming with older vehicles needing work done to keep them on the road. At Exhaust Pro the owner, Eddie Lynch, says business is steady, if not on the rise. Lynch says the average vehicle coming into the garage is 8 to
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CNNMoney.com: Andrew Smith and his fellow teammates from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business joined with an inventor who had discovered that a rectangular box is the least efficient shape for transport trucks to pull down the highway because it causes so much drag. Together, they founded ATDynamics to transform the shape of tractor trailers by
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photo credit: aloxe Last year in there was an enormous surge in bicycle sales with the high gas prices and everyone switching over to more efficient ways of travel. So Mr. Graves, an Oregon bike store owner stocked up on winter equipment expecting sales to be the same. However, sales have dropped quite a bit
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The Jewish Week: If Eric Forkosh has his way, the days of waiting on a street corner for the school bus to arrive will become a relic of the past. Forkosh, a junior at Rambam Mesivta High School, created Bus Alert!, a handheld unit that uses radio signals to alert students and parents when the
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The Wall Street Journal: When gasoline prices shot over $4 a gallon this summer, Americans didn’t wait for Washington to respond with an energy policy. They took action on their own by driving less and switching to more fuel-efficient cars. The results are dramatic, but also problematic. The good news is that gasoline consumption has
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New York Post: Topher McGibbon’s 18-month-old enterprise, Kid Car NY, has a loyal clientele and a lengthy waiting list. But when he started out, McGibbon literally couldn’t give his services away. Kid Car is a taxi service designed for parents of infants and young children, offering minivans kitted out with professionally installed car seats and
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