Biiista motorcycles, electric and odd looking

found on http://totalbike.hu/hirek/2012/05/14/sokkolo_de_nem_fajdalmas/#

Electric motorcycle may be it's designation to the DMV... but I know a fast car when I see it

read about it here http://green.autoblog.com/2011/04/26/t3-motion-r3-three-wheelers-video/

but in short, with only one rim in back, even though it has twin motorcycle tires on it... nice trick - that, it is classified in the decades old loophole, as a motorcycle, and this allows it to not have to be crash tested. Not be registered as a car, and since it's electric, it doesn't have to get smogged here in California.

It's about 30thou, give or take 5thou, and the company is going to have a difficult time finding a lot of buyers is my guess... a lot of competition for 90 miles, at 30 thou, in the electric car realm... and then add all the motorcycles, mini cars, etc etc that get superb gas mileage... hmmmm

Why is it at the Dana Point Concours? It's a new vehicle... shouldn't qualify... unless you can pay your way in . huh, can you pay to showcase / advertise a new car at a concours? Well, I guess if that is what it takes to have an event on a nice golf course, on the shore of the Pacific, in southern California... 

hot rod hooligans drag racing through the swap meet parking lot... with wheelchairs

All electric BMW I photographed on the 163, another good reason to always have a camera handy

http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/1series/activee/2011/showroom/index.html

in 1899 fully 90 percent of the taxis in New York City were electric

from Steve at http://serviside.blogspot.com/ in an informative comment about electric vehicles

electric pleasure vehicles from Studebakers in 1909

found among hundreds of great old car catalogs at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:454055&slabel=Automobiles%253A%2520Manufacturers%2520catalogues%252E&sScope=images&sLevel=1

Some of the interesting variety from an online library of 1920's advertising

 That is cool, the inner workings of a magnetic speedometer

 Pretty good pitch for why an electric vehicle is better than the internal combustion engine, and better than the steam cars.

Not interested in the camera, that car is cool

found at http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/?facet=Subject=Autos%20and%20Roads

The 1909 Rauch and Lang Carriage Company electric car catalog and artwork

Same car above and below but the top up and down demonstrated

 Interesting that the artwork is the same in the backdrop, but the featured car in the highlight is different

 and here the car seems to be the same model but the artwork is different

found among hundreds of great old car catalogs at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:454055&slabel=Automobiles%253A%2520Manufacturers%2520catalogues%252E&sScope=images&sLevel=1

from 1895 to 1910 was an era of the horseless carriage and innovators who were trying every innovative way of making steam (5 of these are steam) or gasoline powered vehicles of incredible variety in designs

C. L. 1895 Simmonds' Steam Carriage

 The steering handle looks like a kids wagon handle.  1895 Electrobat Runabout

\1895 Joseph Shaver's Steam Buggy, Milwaukee, WI

 1895 Roger Petroleum Wagon

 1895 Victoria Motorette racine Motor vehcile co

 1895 Woods Electric Landau

 1896 Dey-Griswold Electric Phaeton

 1896 Enig Steamer, Jacksonville, FL

 1896 Hiram Percy Three Wheeler

 1897 Charles Burrows... wonder how long it took hime to learn that a narrow front end isn't good in corners

1897 Reeves Motor Wagon

 1898 Altham Deliver Van

 1898 Eastman Electro-Vehicle

 1898 Piper and Tinker Steam Buggy

 1898 Winton Delivery Wagon

 1899 General Electric Brougham

 1899 International Motor Wheel Delivery Van

 1899 International Motor Wheel Delivery Van

 1900 Coca Cola Wagon

 1900 Orient Autogo

1901 Century Tourist  Steamer

 1901 Ford Race Car

 1901 Ford Runabout

1901 Franklin

 1901 Trimotor Crescent

 1902 Automotor with a rumble seat... really is the progenitor of the rumble seat

 1902 Stearns Steam Surrey

 1902 Thomas Touring

 1902 Toledo

 1902 W.S. Rogers Transit Steam Wagon

 1902 Winton Bullet Race Car.

 1903  Oldsmobile Pirate Race Car

 1903 Duryea Three Wheeler

 1903 Mitchell

 1903 Oldsmobile enclosed body... wow, what a funky design

 1903 Pullman Six Wheel Touring

 1904 Oldsmobile Pie Wagon

 1904 Peerless Barney Oldfields' Racer,   this is the Green Dragon

 1905 Scharbach  (Hill Climber) Roadster

 1906 Shawmut The winner of the 1909 Pan Pacific Race from New York City to Seattle

 1907 Bugmobile

1907 Duer High Wheeler 

1907 Lansden Electrette

all of these and many more can be found at http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/1890a.htm