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the reporter's notebook of Christopher Mims

Choosing the Right Electric Bicycle

Electric bikes are not for the tiny-hatted bike geeks leaning over racks of $400 carbon fiber wheels at your local bike shop. They’re not even for people who are happily biking to work already. Electric bicycles are for people who would otherwise drive.

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The Ubiquity of Electric Boats

To naval engineers—who have been doing radical things with ship propulsion since the Egyptians first harnessed wind to sail up the Nile around 3500 B.C.—the latest innovations in automobile drivetrains are old hat.

GOOD magazine

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Radical Ways to Recover Wasted Energy From Your Car

Eighty-five percent of the energy in a gallon of gas is squandered in even the most efficient gasoline-powered cars – all the more reason to recapture as much of that waste as possible.
GOOD magazine

Good’s editors came up with the idea for this one. It’s an interesting take on the problem of fuel efficiency – we all know smaller, lighter cars and the electrification of the drive train are the ultimate solution, but a certain amount of waste is inevitable. So: how can we recover it?

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