Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Electric Outboard by Briggs & Stratton

Electric outboard use is growing with good reason. Environmentally, there are no emissions, it's quiet and easy to use. Additionally, traditional gas outboard users are discovering the ease of use and no-maintenance benefits of electric outboards. Great for usage on lakes and bodies of water that have i.c.e. exclusion or for anyone concerned with protecting the environment. This electric outboard motor from Briggs & Stratton is an ideal outboard boat motor produces 150lbs of thrust which is equivalent to a 3 hp gasoline outboard motor. You can expect about 8 hours of running while at trolling speeds and about 2.3 hours of run time while at cruising speed. Tiller or remote (shown) models available.

Electric Dirtbike

Being an active mountain biker and former MX rider I found this an interesting item. Electric Moto Corporation has produced a really neat electric motorcycle. This is no mere kid's toy either. This is a powerful adult sized electric motorcycle that can compete with some i.c.e. bikes. It has all the goodies like disk brakes, long travel suspension, knobby tires and wheel lifting torque. What it doesn't have is the smell, noise and air pollution of a petrol powered bike. It's a real green machine and hats gives it a big thumb's up from me.

This bike is definitely trying to make the statement that you don't need to burn fossil fuels or calories to have some two-wheeled excitement. Now I really like human power but I always look forward to gravity assist and this would be like an endless downhill run. Guess you could always charge it up with a pedal powered generator for exercise.