2011 Ultra Motor A2B Metro Gen. 2 LEV - Ride to Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, California USA

To help give you a sense of what it feels like to ride an A2B Metro Light Electric Vehicle Gen. 2 version.

The motor is nearly silent (only really hear sound of freewheel when coasting). It accelerates quickly as electric motors provide immediate torque. It is regulated like a bicycle so no license, title, or insurace required and it can go in bike lanes, bike paths and trails like a bicycle.

Best part is no gas, no smoke, no engine vibration, no noise.

You can get roughly 20 miles of range on throttle alone, more if you pedal some, 40 miles range if you get the optional second battery. I believe a full charge costs only about US$0.10 so basically pennies of electricity.

Sweating going to work and intimidating hills in San Francisco are no longer problems. I park and charge it like a laptop at the cubicle in the office because there's no oil to leak on carpets. :)

Don't have a GoPro Hero camera yet so strapping an ipod touch to a backpack's sternum chest strap with 2 small rubber bands seems to work OK as a makeshift bikecam. Definitely less shaky compared to mounting it on the handlebars and you can see the speedometer dash this way. I can reach between 22 - 25 mph under hybrid human+electric power which is plenty fast for urban commuting.

2011 A2B Metro G2 Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) + iPod Touch 4G Camera + Insignia GPS on PeriPower Bike handlebar mount + EVS Wrister 2.0 Gloves + the sniffles :) Oh and clean, green, hybrid human and electric power!

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