While it’s all very well and good to use an electric vehicle as your around-town ride, full-size electric cars can still be pretty pricey. Also, as many of their critics are quick to point out, the ...

One of the latest products the guys over at Hammacher Schlemmer uploaded on their website is a solar-powered velomobile, with a range bi enough to take to work and back with only one charge. The 100% ...

TreeHugger Sami lives in Durham, North Carolina where they make the ELF, a solar and pedal powered hybrid vehicle that is "specifically designed to get the cycle-challenged out of their cars." I ...

If the words “recumbent trike” make your lip curl, we understand. Weird bikes often seem to perpetuate the myth that cyclists are fringey oddballs disconnected from reality. But the ELF deserves a ...

Well, the popular Elf velomobile may be in for some competition. San Diego-based Virtue Cycle Solutions has developed a sort of electric cargo trike/pedal car type thing of its own, that it’s hoping ...

Riders test solar/pedal-powered trike Riders tested out Organic Transit's ELF solar/pedal trike in a parking lot at McMenamin's Edgefield in Troutdale. The covered vehicle blends a combination of ...

There's no shortage of bizarre motorized bicycle crossbreeds in the world, but there just aren't enough bizarre motorized tricycle crossbreeds. So enter the ELF, a three-wheeled, electrically assisted ...

Dan Neil on two modes of 1-hp urban transit: the ELF velomobile, a solar-powered car and bike hybrid, and the A2B electric bike.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- Laura Brusky rolled into a restaurant parking lot riding in an enclosed tricycle that looked something like a big white egg, but she was there to work, not eat. Brusky is a ...

Take a spin in the ELF, a category-defying new vehicle built here in Durham, and prepare to have this question shouted at you by passing motorists. And bicyclists. And people on the sidewalk. Park in ...