PORTLAND, Ore. -- It's a bright idea for a cycle-loving city such as Portland: a tricycle that's powered by both pedals and the sun. A North Carolina company called Organic Transit has created what it ...

Organic Transit CEO and Founder Rob Cotter inside the ELF during a test ride event in Portland on Tuesday. (Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland) It’s not a bike and it’s not a car, but the ELF trike is ...

This blog post originally appeared on IEEE Spectrum. This past summer, Organic Transit, a small company in Durham, N.C., completed construction of the 51 enclosed, electrically assisted tricycles that ...

Bob Graves of Hutchinson is used to turning heads when driving, having a longtime passion for hot rods. Lately, he has been turning heads with a different sort of vehicle – an ELF electric tricycle.

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 ...

We here at autoevolution strongly support the integration of small electric motors into bicycles, because we say that the electric motor is perfectly suited for that application. On a pedal-powered ...

Santa’s hard to spot in his sleigh, but you might see an ELF or two around town. A local green hero has been driving an ELF, a solar and pedal hybrid vehicle, for months around Portland. “I like to ...

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 ...

Remember when you were a kid and rode that plastic tricycle around the block. Good times. But now you’re all grown up. So it’s time you got a grown-up tricycle. Check your mirrors for Elf, a ...

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 ...

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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 ...