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British carmaker Bee Automotive has announced plans to revive the BRM brand after 60 years with the creation of a new, high-performance electric race car. Dubbed the BRM Bee Four, this all-electric racer is due to feature a new powertrain developed at Oxford University.

Read More: UK’s Bee Automotive Announces Plans for 700hp Electric Race Car

Vespa scooters (and their knockoffs) are extremely popular little machines. I’m not sure why, since I really don’t like them much, but it appears that their “retro” looks appeal to a lot of people. Enough people that a company has started taking the noxious 2-stroke engines out of them and converting these scooters into all-electric rides.

Read More: The Vespa Electric Conversion by Soundspeed Scooters

At the 2008 INTERMOT Bike Show in Cologne, Germany, an exhibit called “Innovation Cafe” was one of the favorites for many attendees. At that exhibit were concept designs for 2-wheeled creations. One of those was this concept bike, the Oree, sponsored by Honda.

Read More: Honda Oree Concept Electric Motorcycle

Todd Stiers, from Berkeley, California, wanted to make an electric vehicle. He thought about converting a car, but decided to do a motorcycle instead. Considering he didn’t have a motorcycle license, had no experience riding one on the street, and didn’t own a bike to convert, that was pretty gutsy.

His blog at tronbikes.com details his odyssey from day one (July 7, 2007) to present. The bike has gone through several versions and changes since then, but he first had it operational in November of 2007.

Read More: The TronBike: Kawasaki Ninja Electric Motorcycle Conversion

The iZip Express 2009 electric bicycle is a new high-end e-bike from Currie Technologies’ iZip brand. iZip is one of Currie’s two electric bike brands - the other is eZip, which sells lower-priced e-bikes.

Read More: Closer Look: iZip Express 2009 Electric Bicycle

For those of you who missed, or were late to (that would be me) the Santa Monica Electric Vehicle parade held by Plug In America in honor of President Obama’s inauguration can now watch the video! Plug In America and videographer Stephano Paris have released a 38-minute video of the event for all to see.

Read More: VIDEO: Plug In America Inaugural Electric Vehicle Parade West

We’ve been covering the Aptera 2e for a while now at ZoomiLife, and have been dying to see more pics of the car - so far all that’s been available are Aptera’s official images. We figured that with Aptera’s release date so close, it was only a matter of time before more appeared on their website or in their newsletter. Well, it looks like we finally got our wish, but it wasn’t Aptera who came through, but an intrepid ApteraForum user known as apt2123h.

Read More: Aptera 2e Caught In The Wild (pics)

Coca-Cola has announced that they will be fielding another 185 hybrid-electric versions of their delivery trucks this year, more than doubling their fleet of hybrids. This will make 327 total hybrid-electric Coca-Cola trucks on the road nationally and it makes Coke the largest hybrid delivery fleet owner in North America.

Read More: Coca-Cola To Put Hybrid Delivery Trucks On Road This Year

Science has finally found the ultimate answer to our green energy needs: poop. To be precise, it’s manure. The Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine and the Sumitomo Corporation (both in Japan) have joined together to figure out how to make a cow’s leftovers (manure and urine) into hydrogen for use in fuel cells. Apparently Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was translated into Japanese at some point; inspiring a professor to make electricity from dung.

Read More: Japanese Researchers Harness the Power of Poop

Recently, the boys at EcoGeek got to test drive the Chevrolet’s Equinox, a fuel cell test vehicle the company has been quietly working with for several years. While Honda and now Toyota are making waves with their fuel cell designs and ideas, GM has been quiet about this one.

Read More: GM’s Fuel Cell Vehicle Gets a Test Drive