Scenes From the Commute: Zap Xebra - Car or Motorcycle?

I came across this interesting little vehicle in an office park garage in the Seattle area. I did a little research and came across some info the the Zap Xebra electric, three-wheeled enclosed motorcycle. Yes, that is a long list of descriptors. It's like a three-toed sloth of vehicles: weird, rare and probably just as slow.

It reminded me of this epic Top Gear segment on the Reliant Robin.

The best part: That cord was plugged into a socket in the garage. Free electricity -- at least for the owner of the car.

A rare, slow Zap Xebra getting a free charge.

Balancing This Podcast on One Wheel

It's election time, and voters in several cities expressed their displeasure with red-light cameras, voting to either stop using them or prevent their installation.

Ryno is one-wheel of weird.

At the same time, the Supreme Court is debating the legality of placing GPS tracking devices on vehicles. Is it Big Brother or just normal observation using new data gathering devices?

Toyota still can't catch a break, and is now having to recall almost 500,000 vehicles.

There is always some pain in being an early adopter. Portland, Oregon, has learned that with it's electric car and charging efforts.

Now electric cars are efficient and so are motorcycles, but they aren't as clean as you might think, MythBusters found out.

Cadillac is rolling out a new infotainment system, and we think it's awesome.

Finally, we like everything with wheels, even if it's only one. The Ryno is like a combination of a motorcycle and a Segway.

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