Tern has stolen a march on Brompton by launching the Elektron – a bicycle described as the smallest, most powerful folding e-bike ever. The long-awaited electric Brompton has been in development for over five years and remains months away from launch. According to Cycling Industry News, the electric Brompton advanced prototype tips the scales at 16.5 kg and retains the company’s…
It was easy to dismiss the straddle bus from China when the idea first emerged, but the concept has now become reality in the form of a full-scale working prototype. The transit elevated TEB-1 straddle bus was put through its paces last week on a test road in Qinhuangdao, a demonstration which illustrated how cars are able to pass beneath it. The straddle bus…
The family bicycle is widely regarded, in this country at least, as a runabout to potter around the local park with the kids; driven largely by fashion, we overlook practical options in favour of those built for outright speed or off-road ability. It is surprising then, that an appetite for a new breed of family bicycle is emerging not from…
Every child has the right to cross to school in safety. We want to ensure that every school can get a designated safe crossing on any road on which it has an entrance. It’s the reason we developed our pop-up zebra crossing and why we took it to St Peter’s School in Portslade to help with their own campaign to…
Morgan has unveiled a special edition of the striking EV3 electric car . Only 19 examples of the 1909 Edition will be built. The ash-framed three-wheeler might at first glance look like an automotive anachronism, but beneath composite carbon panels lurks a tubular space frame chassis and a liquid cooled 46 kW motor driving the rear wheel. Weighing less than 500 kg,…
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