Piaggio to introduce a hybrid scooter

Yes due to fuel prices going nuts Piaggio's scooter sales are going nuts so now his goal is a hybrid scooter by next year getting atleast 140MPG.

They claim even in the US his sales have skyrocketed 100+ %

 

wowww 140 mpg

 

My scooter gets half that, and I'm content.

 

That is what he stated already that they did get 70-80mpg now.

 

I like this one.

 

That's what I'm rolling. Has 150cc output too, so it's pretty zippy.

 

Woah, that looks futuristic!

 

I prefer my little 49cc model. No registration or insurance so I'm not giving a penny to the man outside of sales tax and it gets me around town at a dignified 27mph.

 

Oooh by the time I'm driving they'll just all be electric! And then by the time the 10 year olds are driving they'll be robots!
And then... god save the 6 year olds.

 

The Vespanator: Rise Of The Machines...

 

i want all electric and damd near silent. as quiet as i can walk, for seeing critters in the woods and not scaring them away.

screw trying to impress anyone. impressing anyone with gratuitous loudness only demonstrates the lack of a consciounse and gratifys nothing.

"Oooh by the time I'm driving they'll just all be electric! And then by the time the 10 year olds are driving they'll be robots!
And then... god save the 6 year olds."

given that most fortuous course of conjectured events, it will have.

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I just read that it gets 60km to the Litre... which would be about 80-85 mpg.

I guess it has a really low carbon dioxide emission though

 

my honda 55 in 1964 (not a minirocket but a full sized fraime) got closer to 200. tank held 8/10ths of a gallon, typically rolled up 150 to 180 accumulated miles before needing refilling.

but the damd thing was too noisy in the woods, and of course underpowered to be legal on the freeway.

emissions are of course a problem with almost anything that burns almost anything. times how many humans there are of course compounds it.

the only or damd near only, answer to that, that i know of, is put it on very narrow gauge rails and run it on stored energy, recharged from a grid fed by noncombustive means of generation, ones that don't produce 'hot' waste to have to be delt with either.

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Sweet, I've always wanted one of those old Honda bikes, that youd see stored up in an old barn or something.

 

i wouldn't mind having something like that now myself. i don't remember what ever happened to it, but it was decades ago that i last had it.

wish i had an old barn too.

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Look on eBay. They pop up for sale once in a while.

The scoot and the barn.

 

Anyone remember Piaggio mopeds?

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You had to pedal them to get them started if I remember right??

 

Most mopeds are pedal start.

Piaggio is still around with various lines of motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds. They had mopeds in the U.S. market back in the 70s when the craze was going on.

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A basic 1 hp two-stroke moped will get well over 100 mpg. When you start sprucing them up with speed kits the fuel economy can drop to 60 mpg.

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