Senkai Motor Works

http://twitpic.com/4jiev - Japanese youth greening their joy with the hauler…

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.

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Our product testing trip is ending… tomorrow we’re packing for our departure

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”:

1. Put enough engineers in a room and we’ll build something, just because we can.
2. Put enough climbers/skiiers/mountaineers together and we’ll start testing our limits in the mountains, because they are there.
3. Put enough environmentally concerned people together and we’ll try to do something about changing peoples habits, because that is what we do.

Over the last 10-years since we initially met (and even before on our own) we’ve all struggled with how to climb, ski and bike in the most spectacular places on earth, while making sure, that our great-grandkids can follow these same trails.  Like many things mountains, from a distance, look completely solid, impenetrable and never changing.  With just a trip to your local hill you can determine that is a false reality.

How do you get to where you’re going?  It’s having an effect on that place you love.  The mountains I love don’t get as much snow as they used to, the glaciers are receeding and there is less clean drinking water for the towns/villages and cities nearby.  Routes and entire mountains are closed and I can’t feel like an explorer anymore finding my way over unfamiliar ground.

I am afraid future generations will not have the luxury of visiting the mountains, and they’ll blame me, for taking this from them.  They might be right to do so, if we don’t change our ways.

As engineers, mountaineers and environmentalists we are reforming our ways.  We formed Lorax Motors as we realized we could build, test, refine and promote new better ways to do the same old things.

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.

Solar vehicles are weak, fragile, and can only be used in sunny weather. Or not.

(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 emissions vehicles are science projects for the techno-geeks – to weak to use in the real world and useless in poor weather. Here are a few videos that summarize our thoughts on the matter….enjoy.