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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Like electric cars, electric bicycles are classified as zero-emission vehicles, meaning they emit no exhaust gases. Recharging a battery can take 5-8 hours, but costs only a few cents a day. Your correspondent borrowed the new A2B electric bicycle from Ultra Motors, a British firm, and took it for a spin in London.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

Spinning at up to 25,000 rpm, two permanent-magnet motors independently power the front wheels, or regenerate energy from braking to recharge the batteries. That front-drive mode gets the car a green light in cities like London and Rome as they begin to bar polluting cars from their downtown areas. And don’t forget sound.

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