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Brammo has dropped the price of the Enertia electric motorcycle from $11,995 to $7.995. This huge price cut doesn’t include the 10% federal credit, which drops the price further to $7,195. Many balked at the old price tag and it’s likely that increased production to meet Best Buy in-store models plus the consumer hangup (and competition from Zero and others) have changed Brammo’s plans.

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Chrysler has released their new 5-year plan to get back in the black. While the plan talks about better fuel efficiency and more targeted, focused vehicle models within brands, it says absolutely nothing about electrics or hybrids.

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There appears to be a quiet fetish amongst some electric vehicle enthusiasts for the unicycle. Maybe it’s because EVs still have that nerd appeal, which they share with bow ties and unicycles, or maybe it’s the tininess of these little one-wheelers that makes them good.

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These people were willing to humiliate themselves showing off these, err, half-baked concoctions (or would that be confections). So I’m willing to make fun of them.

Here’s the gist of the whole thing: these are little electric parade cars that look like giant cupcakes with people sticking out the middle (like the dancer at the bachelor party, only not as hot). Most of them have candy hats.

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After a lot of fanfare and enticing lead-up, TTXGP finally unveiled their 2010 model TTX02, called the Mavizen, to showcase next year’s TTXGP races. The bike’s official race track debut will be in May when it leads the laps in California to begin the TTXGP US Series.

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Let’s say you’re fascinated with horse-drawn buggies and carriages. Let’s say that you’re an artist living in New York City. Now let’s say that you have some time on your hands and can get your hands on some wood, electric motors, and a few 12V batteries.

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Earlier in October, we talked about the Mission One team breaking the speed record for a production electric motorcycle. Well, it didn’t take long for the competition to show up. Lightning Motorcycles’ production prototype that bears their name burned past Mission’s speed (officially 150mph, unofficially 161mph) with a recorded 166.388mph hot streak.

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So you borrow your friend’s Tesla Roadster and are stopped at a construction zone waiting to get through. Suddenly a jealous Toyota Prius driver rams you from behind, pushing you underneath a nature-hating SUV driver and totaling your friend’s $120,000.00 car.

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We’ve all at least seen those movies where the people climb into a cooper’s barrel, a garbage can, or something similar and roll down the hill risking life and limb for some kind of dumb thrill. It’s all great fun until you careen headlong into that noggin-busting tree.

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Not rhetorically either, the little Nanos are literally catching fire. Three Tata Nanos have caught fire, reportedly, because of a short circuit in a steering column switch. As a result, the world’s cheapest car is being recalled and current showroom models are being audited.

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