solar bike Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:54:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Turn Your Bike Into a Solar Electric – What Can Be Hotter? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/turn-bike-solar-electric-can-hotter-20140922/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/turn-bike-solar-electric-can-hotter-20140922/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:53:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49264 Along the streets where I live, I regularly bump into, er I actually just see, guys on mountain bikes and gals on electric scooters.  Being a biker myself, I wouldn’t mind trading my bike for an electric scooter especially on the way home in the hot summer sun, after a challenging trail ride. Thanks to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/turn-bike-solar-electric-can-hotter-20140922/feed/ 0 49264 A 10,000-Kilometer Ride on Solar Powered Bike From France to Japan https://www.greenoptimistic.com/florian-bailly-solar-bike-tour-20101014/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/florian-bailly-solar-bike-tour-20101014/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:37:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11179 Florian Bailly, a French cyclist, completed a 12 countries and two continents tour on a custom-made solar bike this week. The 10,000-kilometer journey, from France to Tokyo, lasted two-thirds less than it would have taken on a normal bike.

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