Thursday
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March 5, 2009
If there is a term more ubiquitous than "hybrid" in the national automotive lexicon I don't know it. Alright, maybe "bailout". I digress. Fuel economy aside, what's disappointingly absent in many of the more fuel efficient modes of transportation [read: Prius] is style. It seems that function is forever fated to trump form in the design of gas-electric hybrid vehicles. World-reknowned industrial designer Adrian Van Anz, however, happens to disagree, and Derringer Cycles is his rebuttal.
Modeled after a 1920's era board track racing motorcycle, Van Anz's neo-classical interpretation of the moto-hybrid (gas-kinetic) clocks an astonishing fuel economy in excess of 150 mpg! The cycle can be pedaled with or without assistance from the motor, or propelled solely by the Honda-built overhead 4-stroke 49cc engine at speeds of up to 40mph.
Modeled after a 1920's era board track racing motorcycle, Van Anz's neo-classical interpretation of the moto-hybrid (gas-kinetic) clocks an astonishing fuel economy in excess of 150 mpg! The cycle can be pedaled with or without assistance from the motor, or propelled solely by the Honda-built overhead 4-stroke 49cc engine at speeds of up to 40mph.
