Tag: SCOOTER

At first glance, BMW's new scooter prototype, the Mini Scooter E, seems like just another electric scooter. Unlike others, though, the Mini will never ask its drivers to waste time looking for specific charging points -- or, for that matter, their keys. As Fast Company reports, the Mini is set to be unveiled at next month's Paris Motor Show, where it's unique electrical design will surely get ...

Motorcycle enthusiast Colin Furze, who recently became known for attaching a flamethrower onto the back of his scooter, was arrested in England last week. According to the Telegraph, Lincolnshire police noticed the publicity surrounding Furze's creation -- reminiscent of something from a James Bond film -- and arrested him for suspicion of possessing an object converted into a firearm. It's an ...

BMW has resurrected the epically failed C1 scooter as a one-off concept vehicle, equipping it with one substantial modification. It's electric. The original C1 never quite caught on, due in part to some confusing helmet and bike laws in both Sweden and the U.K., and perhaps also due to its motorcyle-meets-golf-cart aesthetic. Its new electric replacement, the C1E, is almost identical in design, ...

Imagine our surprise when we saw, early this morning, that Engadget had posted evidence of this extreme transportational weirdness. Just when we thought that the world at large had come to some sort of consensus -- a peace accord, if you will -- and decided, once and for all, that the Segway was the most ridiculous, least useful, and dorkiest transportive innovation since the unicycle, Honda had ...

Dutch designer Jurgen Bey has received accolades for his unique, and highly bizarre, furniture creations, but his ridiculous new "Slow Car" concept may only inspire a global, furious shaking of fists. Even though the overwhelming majority of the working world can't wait to escape the claustrophobia of being sequestered in cubicles all day, Bey, for some reason, believes that people may want to ...

Late one night, a woman rolled up to a White Castle drive-through in St. Paul, Minnesota on her mobility scooter. No, this is not the beginning of a joke, and she was not reenacting a scene from a recent stoner flick. Ariel Wade just wanted some burgers. And since the lobby was closed, Wade, who suffers from degenerative arthritis in her back, had no choice but to roll up on her blue scooter. ...

The NYPD may have ditched a few of their Piaggio scooters in favor of some all-electric Vectrix models a little while back, but it looks like the Italian company may be about to get back in their favor, as it has just unveilved its new MP3 Hybrid plug-in scooter that promises to get an impressive 141MPG. Apparently, the three-wheeled scooter can operate in either a full-electric mode, or one of ...