{"id":8877,"date":"2006-04-14T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2006-04-14T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T15:01:20","slug":"e-scoot-its-how-i-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8877","title":{"rendered":"E-Scoot: It&#8217;s How I Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/eScooter.jpg\">Alright, you Street Techies who ride scooters, try not to laugh, and you bikers in the audience, try not to hork in your Keiser helmets. It looks like something out of a Frauenfelder comic, like something <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/sterling\/index.blog?entry_id=129200\" target=\"new\">Kata Sutra<\/a> might drive, a sleek, barely-there electric scooter that can get 50 miles on a 50 cent charge. <\/p>\n<p> This is something I might personally be interested in. I don&#8217;t drive a car and there are tons of stores and restaurants within one or two miles of my house. I&#8217;ve thought about a Segway, but they just look too dorky. This baby, a silver jump suit, and a silver helmet (or maybe orange suit and a DEVO flowerpot hat) and you&#8217;re talkin&#8217; BOLD statement. The bad news is the Electric Scoot only goes 18mph tops. The price is 1500 Euros (about US$1,800).<\/p>\n<p> For those scooter purists out there (who are still gas conservation conscious), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/14\/vespa_shipping_hybri.html\" target=\"new\"> this<\/a> may be more to your liking.<\/p>\n<p> Read more about the E-Scoot and see more pictures on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/go\/5509\/\" target=\"new\">Gizmag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, you Street Techies who ride scooters, try not to laugh, and you bikers in the audience, try not to hork in your Keiser helmets. It looks like something out of a Frauenfelder comic, like something Kata Sutra might drive, a sleek, barely-there electric scooter that can get 50 miles on a 50 cent charge. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E-Scoot: It&#8217;s How I Roll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}