Posts Tagged ‘Bike Share’

Talk about a convergence of green concepts. Designer Chiyi Chen has come up with a concept that combines bike sharing, renewable energy, and regenerative hybrid technology into one system. The Hybrid2 would use ultracapacitors to store the energy produced by a bicycle and feed it back into the grid when the bike is put back [...]

Searching through Google news these past two or three days, I’ve come across a TON of mentions of the City of Austin Bike Sharing program. Kudos to them so far on the initial interest and coverage and let’s all hope this will translate into enthusiastic usage of the program.

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This week, the City of Austin launched a pilot bike share program gear towards city staff to reduce vehicle emissions for short trips. Staff will be able to reserve bikes online and check them out whne they need them. Add this to the Austin CarShare program the City is doing to reduce greenhouse gases through [...]

Marsha Ungchusri sent the following submission  in to us. B-Cycle is a Bike Sharing concept nearly identical in function to Velib in France. It’s a corporate collaboration between health firm Humana, Trek Bicycles, and ad firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
The site looks promising, but it isn’t backed up with quite enough information to make me [...]

This is a good time of year to be trolling for a nominee for Dumbest Product of the Week. Dozens of papers and magazines are doing year-end rosters of the best products introduced this year which gives me a chance to catch up on “innovations” I may have otherwise missed.
This week’s winner comes courtesy of [...]

Bike sharing has been around for a while with Yellow Bike as its most anarchist form and Paris as its most wildly successful incarnation (or at least most reported on.) But leave to the City of Montreal, home of North America’s longest running carshare program, to take the good idea one step further.
Time has awarded [...]