March 2010
1 post
Press from BikePortland →
July 2009
2 posts
Some Recent Press →
Earth2Tech article about us.
June 2009
14 posts
Bedtime stories from Japan: Quadzilla and Dr....
(Aaron) I awoke in my smelly bivy to find myself sleeping next to a cigarette vending machine in a gritty neighborhood in Muroran; It was 5:15 am, freezing cold, and we had 4 hours to ride 70 k if were were going to catch our ferry. I pried Tris out of his sleeping bag, and by 5:40 we had packed up, broken our fast with bread, cheese, and vending machine coffee, and ridden back to the main road. ...
Bedtime stories from Japan: Down and Out in...
(Aaron) I just need to say that Tris and I HATE McDonalds; So, it was with a grim sense of irony that I found myself shouldering open a McDonalds door in the brilliant mid-morning sun on Hokkaido’s southern coast. I desperately wanted to be riding to Muroran in the most intense sun we had seen since leaving Oaria, but we were way behind on our blogging, we hadn’t figured out an exit...
Stay tuned for a few more bedtime stories from our...
(Aaron) Things have been pretty crazy here at LMW as we prep for our first Hauler production run at the end of the summer. Between designing parts, negotiating with suppliers, building jigs, and working on our web-page a few blog posts from the end of our Japanese Hauler ski-mountaineering trip fell through the cracks. I have queued up the rest of our posts detailing the end of our time on...
Hello New Friends
Thanks to Wend Magazine in Portland and TreeHugger (and now Fast Company) for featuring us in two posts in the past 2 days! We’re excited for the press and are hoping that are webservers can withstand it :-)
http://wendmag.com/greenery/2009/06/zero-emissions-hauler/
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/lorax-900-mpg-hauler-the-solar-tricycle.php
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Thanks for the mention @treehugger http://bit.ly/KybM9
http://bit.ly/Awzpw
May 2009
14 posts
http://twitgoo.com/7dio
Hauler #s:Full AC Charge, No Solar: 0.8 kwhr, 10 cents, 20miles in hills full out, 1/2cent/mile, 1,250 mpg. Eat it Detroit; Huck a Hauler
P.S. The real Hauler Equation: Hauler + Solar + Cake + Quads = infinity mpg and a nice ass.
Join the No Gas, All Cake World Tour 2009.
We’re going out and about in the Haulers this weekend in Hood River. If you’re in the neighborhood, tweet, email or call for a test ride.
The $40 of gas I just bought would have purchased a lot of cake - should have been on a Hauler…
http://twitpic.com/4jm4v - another green your joy pic for #ecomonday - youth getting psyched on the hauler - http://bit.ly/3q7Xq
http://twitpic.com/4jiev - Japanese youth greening their joy with the hauler…
We’re participating in #ecomonday Green your joy!
April 2009
9 posts
Product Warmup
We’re in the process of doing some website updates and getting ready for our beta product launch. Stay tuned….
We’ve all made it back to the United States after a long time product testing. A couple of more videos and pictures should be coming soon.
Sign up for our new mailing list… We promise to never send you any spam: http://bit.ly/Xcctx
Our product testing trip is ending… tomorrow we’re packing for our departure
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Evolution of Lorax Motor Works
This is the first post in a long series of posts about how LMW has come to be.
We felt comfortable (and competent, and motivated, and, and and) founding LMW because we fit into the following “groups”:
Put enough engineers in a room and we’ll build something, just because we can.
Put enough climbers/skiiers/mountaineers together and we’ll start testing our limits in the...
Stickers!
We’ve got a whole ton of stickers in. We are handing them out wherever we go, but if you want some send us a S.A.S.E:
Lorax Motors Works 1767 12th St #267 Hood River, OR 97031
We’ll send you back some schwag for your refigerator (ours are completely covered from years of sticker accumulation) or wherever else you’d like.
March 2009
132 posts
Some new friends in Japan →
My two compatriots are out there doing quite a bit of product testing and a lot of good grassroots PR work. Nice picture!
Solar vehicles are weak, fragile, and can only be...
(Aaron) I love technology as much as the next person, but it always drives me crazy to see an evening news snippet about a solar car demonstration in some unreasonably sunny climate, such as the interior of Australia. Invariably, these vehicles are built out of space-age materials and accompanied by a team of engineers to keep them running. This creates the impression that all solar and zero...
non sequitur
We have had a terribly hard time finding Internet access, so we got behind on our posts. Here are a couple of vids that never made it in their intended spot.
