After sitting out most of the summer with a mysterious gas leak, my Kymco People 50 scooter finally demanded that I fulfill my promise to fix it. I thought about pushing it up a piece of 2×4 into the bed of the truck and taking it to the shop, but instead went with my original [...]

I headed all the way out to the Washington County Fairgrounds in Hillsboro yesterday to visit the Alternative Energy Show. It was small, but the Oregon Electric Vehicle Association had a presence, with an AC-powered 914, a converted Honda Insight, and a factory electric Chevy pickup. They even had a trailer of pop-up solar panels [...]