Kleen Impact » Green technology http://www.kleenimpact.com Environmental, Outdoors, Cleaning & Detailing, Green, Events and More. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:11:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Green Motorcycle Breaks World Speed Record http://www.kleenimpact.com/2010/06/green-motorcycle-breaks-world-speed-record/ http://www.kleenimpact.com/2010/06/green-motorcycle-breaks-world-speed-record/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:19:20 +0000 admin http://www.kleenimpact.com/?p=427 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Who says you have to trade speed to go green?  Mission Motors, a software company of all things, may help push the green movement forward by pushing its new electric motorcycle to the 150 mph mark, a new world record for an electric motorcycle. The record was clocked at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a prototype of an electric motorcycle the company plans to sell in the near future. Sales for a limited number of the nearly $70k e-bike may start as early as next summer, but the master plan for the company is to license electric power systems for all types of machines.

Apparently Mission uses the best lithium-ion batteries the market and has with a proprietary cooling and management technology. Mission is currently raising funding and working on agreements with a Chinese OEM manufacturer in hopes of merging its battery technology with low-cost bikes. We’d like to see the whole deal be American made, but the Chinese do continue to dominated the electric bike and scooter market. As long as a peppy machine such as this gets more people interested in cleaner, greener vehicles… it should be good thing.

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Innovate or Die, a contest sponsored by Google and Specialized, pushed people to their innovative limits with a pedal-powered machine contest. In just three months over 102 Earth-cooling inventions were entered – all based on the simple mechanics of a bicycle.

Grand Prize Winner: an Aqueduct Mobile Filtration Vehicle – a pedal powered vehicle that transports, filters and stores water for the developing world.

Other honorable mentions include:

Dual-Purpose Bicycle – a bike that upon arrival doubles as a rice thresher, peanut sheller, corn shucker, circular saw or woodworking lathe.

Velocytraptor Mobile Cinema – a mobile interactive theater that seats nine and uses moviegoers to power the show.

Pedal-Powered Snow Plow & Pedal-Powered Laptop

Next up is a bicycle powered washing machine. Check out the site homelessdave.com/hdwashingman.htm for full instructions on how to make your own and how many loads of laundry Dave has completed with his homemade suds machine.

Washing Machine Powered by Bicycle

Or how ’bout a Blender Bike from Rock the Bike for an early morning smoothie or after work margarita. http://rockthebike.com/blenders

Got any creations of your own? Let us know.

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