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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.

Read More: The Unicycle Fetish Continues With Enicycle

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.

Read More: When Your Horsedrawn Carriage Has No Horse

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.

Read More: The eRinGo Electric Barrel Ride

A few days ago, we brought you news of Vision Motor’s plans to sell their hydrogen fuel-cell big trucks through LA Freightliner. Balqon, the other big player in this electric big trucks game, has now announced that they will be producing an on-road highway-ready version of their trucks as well.

Read More: Balqon Not To Be Left Behind: New Highway-Ready Electric Truck

Back in April, we reported that Vision Industries (Vision Motor Corp) had completed second-stage load testing with their Tyrano trucks for Los Angeles Freightliner. The Tyrano is a hydrogen fuel-cell powered truck whose current incarnation is as a day cab (daily delivery) Class 8 (80,000 GVW) truck. On Monday, Vision announced that they had signed a deal with LA Freightliner to distribute the Tyrano.

Read More: Vision Motors Signs Distribution Agreement With LA Freightliner for Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Trucks

If you think that bus stops are just a place to sit on a bench and wait for a bus, that’s because you haven’t elevated your thinking to the 21st century. Imagine that instead of a dubiously-graffiti’d bench in an inadequate rain shelter you instead are confronted with no bench, but a rack of folding electric rental bikes. This is the concept that Tuvie has designed.

Read More: Bus Stops and Bicycle Rentals Combine to Sit You Down on An Electric Ride

Eric Manning is that lunatic and he even describes it that way himself (well, he calls it “insane or committed”). He gets this from his father, Denis Manning, another well-known land-speed racer.

Read More: Lunatic Defined: Man Wants to Ride a Motorcycle at 365mph

Honda has unveiled a new, uhh… it’s a… you know, a… that guy’s wearing pants. Right? It’s not, like, going… er… Oi.

Read More: Honda Unveils a New Unicycle and Uh…

We’ve talked about electric and hydrogen-powered big trucks before, of course. There are some updates on what’s happening with the new wave of greener, electric-based trucking now. One goes into production and gets lithium batteries and the other is a new concept based on another design.

Read More: Big Rigs Going Electric - Freightliner and Balqon

“Keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times. Fasten your seatbelts and keep both wheels on the ground. Pay up your life insurance premiums. Pull the throttle…”

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