Treehugger TV: Trike Taxi

The men from Trike Taxi take us through their plans for a eco-friendly electric powered pedicab.

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[tomcatfranks]

wahh, get over it, human power is clean power

[shavimusha]

this guys must be rounded up and executed they make NYC traffic worst they try to cut lanes they never respect any traffic laws scratch cars and then run away they try to squeeze between two lanes in traffic and so on and on and on only solution is to create some law and make them get license to carry passengers like taxis do and all drivers should heave drivers license so police can stop them and give them tickets !

[BarIcon]

More accidents than any vehicle in New York in the last three years. There are 13,000 taxi cabs, only 700 pedicabs. This is not a good record.

[saaanjay]

Does the electric/ hydrogen power assist the pedal power or can they only be used instead of pedal power?? i.e I want to know whether the torque generated by electric/ hydrogen can be added to the torque generated by the pedal power..??!!

[heBwhite]

Further, unless you've some sort of green (solar) power, it typically takes more energy to create hydrogen than you can get back out of it (if you're talking splitting water, which is what most home systems do).

An H2 tank on a vehicle is typically stored in very, very high PSI containers to get enough miles, so it's not the fact that it's Hindenburg-like hydrogen (it's not), but that any gas under that high a pressure is nasty.

Google 'Twike' and 'Novars fuel cell bicycle' for more info...

[heBwhite]

As long as it's strictly a bicycle (no hybrid/hydrogen) then registration is not required. A three-wheeled motorized vehicle would register most likely in most states as a neighborhood electric vehicle if it's got a top speed of 20mph, and depending on whether you HAVE to pedal it for it to move (assisted or no) -- there's all sorts of legislation on a state-by-state basis that make NEV's a nightmare (Illinois in particular sucks, btw).

[waxbold]

We're back in town. buddy. rivercity pedicabs. we are downtown look out for us.

[tomcatfranks]

Since there is no registration, licensing, or insurance required for a bicycle, that means more money for spare parts, and other things!! I,m currently building a cargo cycletruck, it's really amazing how much you can load up a trike, provided there's a big box on the back. There's a Pizza shop here that wanted a bicycle with a sidecar, with a 'hotbox' to keep the pizzas warm. I'm still drawing plans up!!

[tomcatfranks]

We used to have pedicabs in San Antonio, Texas. I wish we still had them; they were a great idea!!! Good luck, guys!!!

[antslake]

You F###in retards, aren't you the same retards that got trikes banned in the first place?

Somehow now, trikes are ok to ride, and carry a bottle of explosive hydrogen along?

Just wait till the hydrogen leaks out in your unprepaired garage, and you blow up the building you live in. Just sad, f###in hypocrites.