What’s New at Currie Technologies - IZIP & EZIP

Name one industry that hasn’t yet suffered from the global gray economy. Personal hygiene? Snacks for couch potatoes? Nope, it’s the global bicycle industry. Taiwan’s Shimano reports that its bike division is driving profitability, and Giant Manufacturing predicts upwards growth well into next year.
And the fledgling U.S. market for [...]

LOS ANGELES, CA (BRAIN)—Currie Technologies has introduced a new “Web to Dealer” IBD Fulfillment Program.
This new program allows consumers who purchase an IZIP hybrid electric bicycle on Currie’s Web store (www.izipusa.com) to have their bikes shipped directly to a dealer store (without shipping charges) for professional assembly and set-up. In return [...]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Another Central Coast business is continuing the push to “go green.”  The environmental movement is all in the name at “The Green Station”.  The small business will soon sell the all-electric neighborhood vehicle, the ZENN.
The Green Station also sells B99 biodiesel.  The alternative fuel source is locally [...]

Starting at January’s giant Consumer Electronics Show, this year has brought a stream of substantial and sometimes silly technology designed to entertain us, inform us, or simply separate us from our money. Some of the best might still make good holiday presents, except for those looking for a more frugal [...]

Three weeks ago someone stole Christmas presents from the Niles New Life Church in east Bakersfield that were supposed to go to families in need.
Since then folks from Bakersfield all the way down to the San Fernando Valley have stepped up to help replenish those gifts. The McElroy family from Oildale is asking [...]

The number of e-bikes sold in the U.S. is expected to reach a record 170,000 units this year as big retailers get in on the action
A decade ago, Frank Jamerson helped develop General Motors’ (GM) first electric car, the EV1, only to see interest in the fuel-efficient vehicle fizzle within years. He’s determined to ensure [...]

LAS VEGAS — If you lose your car to the economic downturn, you can get a hybrid that uses no gasoline.
The two power sources: electricity and your thighs.
The electric-assist bike, which takes much of the fitness factor out of cycling, has been around for years mostly as a curiosity. But it’s finally getting some [...]

Published Date:
02 October 2008
By Ed O’Mara
AN ELECTRIC bike is giving council staff in Peterborough the chance to travel to meetings the environmentally friendly way – without getting hot under the collar.
As part of an effort to boost its green credentials, Peterborough City Council has laid on the battery-powered cycle to [...]

This is an example of how simple an electric vehicle (EV) solution can be: Bonnie, my 63-year-old neighbor, hates buying gasonline.
On her own,withour any piror knowledge of electric vechichles, Bonnie went shopping for a small electric scooter with the intentiohn of riding it for her one-mile commute to work. The saleman, hearing what she intended [...]

Currie Technologies will be introducing their new line of bikes at the ’08 Interbike Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Attendees will have a chance to test drive various Izip bike models at the Outdoor Demo in Bootleg Canyon on September 22 &23, 9am-5pm.  The highly anticipated and equally [...]