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For urban commuters: A pedal-solar electric hybrid vehicle

It is a non polluting, does not burn any fuel and not very expensive evolving technology which further developments may attract significant number of customers.

Tres cool, in fact. Nice plus for us Yanks: made in the U.S. Hopefully, most of the parts are U.S. made. Probably not, but even so, nice to see it coming out of N.C. Far better than what Mr. Musk has to offer for we the unwashed and cash-poor masses. (oh, and Tyler, you forgot to add the link to the vid....but we can get that from the UT site.)

The other thing this could be useful for is for me to bike down to my down - all down hill but with a mega up-hill going back. I am all of a sudden starting to count my pennies!

The bottom of the article looks like it should point to a link where we can see the Elf in action. Can you provide it, please? Thanks!

Thanks for pointing that out! The video is back in the post.

if it only had its own road to run on, not one shared by cars, trucks etc. I'm not brave or foolhardy enough to consider one for myself.

It sounds like it could really mature into something nice.

As the giant void in vehicles between regular cars and regular bicycles fills with all sorts of alternative vehicles, city planners need to begin designing and building infrastructire to accomodate this. We need alternate roads and laws to regulate the traffic of alternative vehicles. I really do hope this happening right now!!

I love this progressive product and would like to own one. Frankly though, I really wonder where I would use this in my city. I can't really drive on the regular roads and I can't really drive on the limited existing bike paths either.

This would be good in the center of Philadelphia. A lot of streets already have bike paths that are ready made for this vehicle as a rental in the streets in the central business district along with the University of Pennsylvania on the West and Temple University to the North. Parking a vehicle this size is still an issue.