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After announcing a new batch of high-powered electric kickscooters early last month, Segway has now launched the GT series on Indiegogo – with the GT2 SuperScooter capable of a crazy top speed of 43.5 mph.Though the video at the end does show full-helmet-wearing riders ripping through city streets, Segway is hedging its road-legal bets by pitching the GT series as racing thrill machines for the track or off-roading rather than for your daily commute.The first of the two member GT series is the GT1, which boasts 1,400…

Taiwanese company Graft has launched a super-lightweight new electric off-road motorcycle – or is it a pedal-free ebike on steroids? The EO.12 puts out a meaty 20 kW (27 hp), while weighing just 50 kg (110 lb) thanks to neat touches like carbon wheels.Bikes like this really do make a mockery of categories. It's some 17.5 kg (35 lb) lighter than a Gas Gas TXT 300 trials bike, but makes nearly twice the horsepower and a hilarious 440 Nm (324.5 lb-ft) of torque at the back wheel. If that ain't a recipe for wild fun out on…

Poplar, Wisconsin is a small village, population 603 as of 2010, near the Southwest tip of Lake Superior, about an hour and a half's drive from Minnesota. A humble place from which to start an electric aviation company, perhaps – although it does have the distinction of being the birthplace of the late Major "Dick" Bong, WW2 fighter pilot and America's "leading air ace of all time" with 40 aircraft kills in combat in New Guinea. It's also the home of one Daniel Gant, a mechanical engineer, former manufacturing engineer at…

Hypercar newcomer Deus Automobiles has emerged from the shadows of Vienna, Austria, to throw its hat into the "world's most powerful cars" ring. Its Vayanne super-coupe puts out four figures' worth of all-electric power and torque on its way to screeching from 0 to 62 mph in under two seconds and topping out just under 250 mph. But as odd as it feels to say, by the time the car launches in 2025, 2,200 horsepower might just be too little too late for "world's most powerful" bragging rights. Time will tell. An outrageously…

Low-salt food without a flavor penalty could soon be on the menu. Japanese food and beverage giant Kirin has partnered with Meiji University researchers to demonstrate a set of electric chopsticks that can boost people's perception of saltiness.Most people in the USA eat too much salt – an average of around 3,600 mg per day as compared to U.S. government dietary guidelines that recommend no more than 2,300 mg – and many suffer hypertension and related health issues as a result. The Japanese are apparently even naughtier,…

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a one-of-its kind technology that rates the motors and batteries of Electric Vehicles (EVs) based on Indian drive-cycles.According to officials, the electric vehicles currently available in the market do not take into account the different climatic conditions in India, and the drive cycles developed are not focused on rural and urban drive-cycles.A drive cycle is typically represented by a series of data points which plots vehicle speed…

America's best-selling vehicle series has officially gone electric. Ford kicked off production of the F-150 Lightning today, becoming the second manufacturer to get an all-electric pickup truck onto American roads, following Rivian. With a starting price just under US$40,000, up to 320 miles (515 km)of range and a best-ever 775 lb-ft (1,051 Nm) of torque, the Lightning promises big things for the hundreds of thousands of eager buyers lined up to place their order, as well as the auto market at large. The Ford F-Series has…

Few cars live in the past like the Jeep Wrangler, which exists to carry on the spirit of the original military Jeep that debuted 81 years ago. So you know Jeep is serious about electrification when it rolls out a Wrangler EV concept. Unveiled at the 2022 Easter Jeep Safari, a massive annual gathering of off-road enthusiasts held in Moab, Utah, the blue and white Magneto 2.0 concept is, as the name suggests, Jeep’s second attempt at an electric Wrangler. The original Magneto concept was just a way to test the waters —…

The original Volkswagen Microbus is an automotive icon, which might explain why VW has taken so long to launch a follow-up. After showing multiple Microbus-inspired concept cars, VW unveiled an all-electric Microbus concept at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, the promptly confirmed plans for a production version. While the world oohed and aahed at that concept (and we drove it), VW took its sweet time on the production model. The Volkswagen ID. Buzz finally made its debut online today, and still won’t go on sale in the…

Gov. Brian Kemp stands next to a Rivian electric truck while announcing the company's plans to build a $5 billion plant east of Atlanta projected to employ 7,500 workers, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Some residents oppose the plant, saying it will spoil their rural quality of life. Credit: AP Photo/John Bazemore, File Opponents trying to derail a $5 billion, 7,500-job electric truck plant in Georgia dominated a state…