Portland-based EcoSpeed gave a boost to velomobile riders making the trip from Portland to Washington, D.C. over a period of 30 days. Portland-based EcoSpeed gave a boost to velomobile riders making ...

Though perhaps an overused phrase these days, aiming to be “the world’s first” or “best” is a daunting and challenging task that can – and most often does – end in failure. Meet Snoek, the ...

25 Jun 2024, 19:11 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei // This velomobile was powered by a 250 W motor, equipped with 23 Ah of battery power, and could siphon energy from the sun via a 100 W solar panel This EV ...

Just before takeoff, the velomobiles assembled in front of Salmon Street Fountain in downtown Portland. (Photos © J. Maus) Leave it to Portland to give a hero’s ...

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If you take a recumbent tricycle and enclose it in an aerodynamic fuselage, what you end up with is known as a velomobile. The vehicles are significantly faster than bicycles on the flats and ...

Velomobiles are recumbent tricycles with sleek, colorful outer shells called fairings, that can rocket down a roadway with amazing speed and efficiency. And for the next month 25 riders from Europe, ...

What do you get when you throw all accepted bicycle designs out the window and start fresh? Well, it might look a bit like [Saukki’s] velomobile. Most bikes come in a fairly standard, ...

When we think of velomobiles (for those of us who think of them at all), we typically picture recumbent trikes with rigid aerodynamic shells. The Lightning F-22, however, is a little bit different – ...

About six years ago, in search of some quiet, a Greek Orthodox monk known as Father Ephraim moved in with a community of nuns on a remote Alaskan island that has no running water and too little ...