Cleantech & EV’s

Piaggio’s next electric scooter, the Piaggio ONE, is designed with young riders in mind. And in case that wasn’t already clear by the fact that Piaggio first teased their upcoming scooters on TikTok late last month, then the new designs should hammer the message home. Gone are the classic Vespa lines. In their place is a much more modern, city-centric scooter design. Unveiled at the Beijing…

Tesla is about to unveil the new Model S Plaid, arguably the biggest update to the vehicle program, which is already almost a decade old. We expect that the automaker is going to unveil a few surprises that will raise the bar. I have a 2012 Model S Signature. It’s still a great vehicle that performs better than many brand-new electric cars today, but it’s unrecognizable compared to a new…

Civilized Cycles has just unveiled its new Model 1 electric bike today, and the New York-based company is already claiming that it “rivals a second car or moped.” Judging by the specs and design, they might be right. This is a premium e-bike, and it comes with a premium price of $4,499. With that out of the way, let’s take a look at what Civilized Cycles designed into this e-bike. The…

If you haven’t already had the pleasure of discovering it, I write a fun column called the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. Each week I go spelunking into the caverns of the Alibaba electric vehicle catalog and find something awesome, weird, and usually surprisingly low-cost to share with the world. I’ve wanted to purchase a lot of these myself, and I even did pull the…