electric kart Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 05:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Dyson Appliance Motors Powering Electric Car Race https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dyson-appliances-car-race-20120414/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dyson-appliances-car-race-20120414/#respond Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:55:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24005 Dyson, the famous British appliance company, usually manufactures vacuum cleaners, among its other products. They’re not involved in racing events of any sorts, but this time they may actually strike some people’s sensitive chords, as their 650 engineers put their minds to creating the world’s first race powered by appliance motors. The original dragsters’ motors […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dyson-appliances-car-race-20120414/feed/ 0 24005 Z-Kart: 4-Wheeled Electric Vehicle Built In a Garage, Meant to Inspire https://www.greenoptimistic.com/z-kart-electric-car-20110408/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/z-kart-electric-car-20110408/#respond Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:01:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17888 Z-Kart is the name of George Fortin's newest vehicle. Called by some a contraption, and by others an image of a dream, the Z-Kart doesn't have at all any of the safety requirements of a modern automobile. It is rather a four-wheel carriage that drives electrically, but what's most important, though, is that it's made in a garage... in California.

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