Alternative thinking

Motorcycle Kickstarters – No, the Other Kind

June 25, 2012

You’ve read the stories before, the lone inventor or small company has built a prototype of the next big thing, a revolutionary engine or a fantastic new design for a motorcycle, and all they need now are “investors” to carry it through. They should try Kickstarter. Kickstarter projects, no, not the old lever kind, the money kind, have become the [...]

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Gordon Murray Wants iStream Technology to Revolutionize Vehicle Manufacturing

May 31, 2012

A couple years ago, Gordon Murray introduced his T25, a tiny little car that takes up no more space than a motorcycle sidecar rig, gets really high mileage and looks like fun. What I didn’t notice when I wrote about it back then, perhaps it wasn’t refined yet, was his iStream production process, a method of producing cars that deserves [...]

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Gasoline or Electric – Why Not Both?

April 28, 2012

Why not generate electricity on board with internal combustion generators powering electric motors? Introduce the performance potential of electrics while we wait for the super batteries that may come in the future.

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