AP: The KillaCycle. Maybe this is how to make macho guys into energy-sipping eco-freaks

Published: August 1, 2007, 11:45 am

Tags: science stories, environment stories

The AP’s Aaron Clark had a story the other day that’s about burnt rubber and the local drag strip. Its topic is one of the swifter drag bikes on the tour. Power is by rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries of the sort that General Motors wants to use in its 100-mile-per-gallon vehicle. (The car could be available in 2010 if it can get enough reliable and semi-cheap batteries. Put Chevrolet Volt in your search engine for news on it). The mad-dash racing bike is called the KillaCycle, which is clever. It is developments like this that herald a sea-change in US attitudes, and in US laws and regulations, concerning energy efficiency. Global warming, energy security, and evocation of virility are a potent combo incentive. Of course, ripping from zero to 60 mph in less than a second is hardly a wise, daily routine. The burnt rubber alone is a pollutionary misdemeanor - maybe a felony in some places. But the idea that one’s plug-in hybrid is kin to a machine able to do that

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