Tag: electric

  • Shopping With an E-Scooter

    Shopping With an E-Scooter

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the years I have enjoyed driving to the shops with a petrol driven scooter for daily shops. I liked that it was small, light and convenient. I only got rid of it, after sixteen years of use because of the cost for a service. Usually it was about 500 but…

  • Stress Testing the Ocean Drive Street E-Scooter

    Stress Testing the Ocean Drive Street E-Scooter

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Yesterday I had to drive from Nyon to Founex to do a favour for someone. Normally I would have used the car but it was in for a tire change. I was switching from winter to summer tires at last. On the way to Founex I took farm roads as much…

  • Experimenting with an Electric Foot Scooter

    Experimenting with an Electric Foot Scooter

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Decades ago, by now, someone decided that they needed to make something like a scooter that could stand by itself, and that people could ride. they created the segway and for several thousand francs you could buy one. Some people did, but many did not. Several decades later someone else decided…

  • Life With an Electric Car

    Life With an Electric Car

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The more I play with the electric car and the more I feel that it affects how I spend my time. Today I would have written a blog post before going out, but I didn’t. I didn’t write before going out because I knew that the battery would be down to…

  • A Homemade Electric Car – Youtube Video

    Reading Time: 3 minutes On one side of the Channel, you have people like Colin Furze building fun machines that have the fatal flaw of having an internal combustion engine. On the other side of the Channel, you have people like Marc Gyver building an electric car with easily bought components. The video below shows…