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Fast Electric Scooters used to be more of an idea than a reality. Those days are long gone as now a number of electric scooters can reach top speeds of over 30mph. This is great news for scooter buyers as they can now invest in buying a fast electric scooter where they would have previously had to go with a gas scooter. To help you with your decision process, here are some things to consider when looking at fast electric scooters:

1. Residential and city driving almost requires you to reach speeds of 30 to 40mph.

One of the nicest things about the increases in speeds for electric scooters is that they now truly can be ridden on city streets. With speeds topping into the 30s for mph, people can really start to look at getting electric scooters to use around town.

2. Extra speed can help you avoid danger and keep you safe.

Even if you normally travel under 30mph around town, having an electric scooter that has a little extra speed to offer can be helpful to you. A little extra speed can help you speed around would be traffic problems and allow you to get away faster from any pending danger. By getting the fast electric scooters, you give yourself some additional safety insurance.

3. Read reviews to determine if the promoted top speeds are accurate.

Unfortunately, in an effort to sell more scooters, some unscrupulous sellers will give faster listed top speeds. This is not to say they are being completely dishonest. Most of the time, these top speeds can be achieved in ideal conditions. Instead, you want to find out what the scooter really runs in regular, real world conditions. Blog reviews, message boards and forums are a great avenue for finding out how fast the scooter truly is. You should use these numbers in your determination to see if the electric scooter is fast enough for you.

4. Keep speed in its proper perspective.

Although it is easy to get caught up in finding scooters that have the fastest speed, remember you are trying to find a scooter that can last the long haul. When reviewing the scooters that meet your speed requirement, also take a look at the reputation of the company and the reviews about the scooter. It is far better to go with a scooter that you know will last even if it is not the fastest one on the track.

By keeping these tips in mind, you should begin to understand the importance of looking for good quality and fast electric scooters.

Now, stop wasting any more time and energy trying to find the Fast Electric Scooters. Instead, try visiting http://www.motorized-scooters.net/Electric-Scooters to get some solid tips and information on fast electric scooters and scooters in general.

Running a car on water is not exactly what we are talking about here. We are actually discussing the possibility of creating a fuel source from water to supplement the gas or diesel we already use, drastically increasing gas mileage. We also want to do this with an affordable DIY hydrogen generator that can be built for under $65.

I know this is possible because I have been doing it for several months now. The hydrogen generator I built alongside my 15 year old daughter has actually improved my gas mileage by about 25-30%.

I use a very simple device that was easy and affordable to build and actually creates a form of gas that is known as HHO, or Brown’s gas. This gas burns very cleanly and much, much more efficiently than normal gas or diesel does.

It is easy enough to understand that water molecules are actually formed by atoms of oxygen and hydrogen, both being very flammable. While it is very difficult to separate two bonded hydrogen atoms, it is not at all difficult to break apart the much weaker bond of hydrogen to oxygen.

In fact, researchers and scientist have been doing this for nearly 100 years through a process known as electrolysis.

Oxygen and hydrogen stick together to form a water molecule because of their opposite charges. It makes since that if you apply a stronger set of opposite charges that the atoms would come apart and be attracted to the opposite charge.

We can submerse a set of electrodes, one with a positive charge and the other a negative, in a container of water, apply an electrical current, and actually begin to separate the water molecules into a gas that is a mixture of two bonded hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom.

This gas is extremely fine, with a huge surface area allowing for easy combustion. Note I said combustion, not explosion. This is a very safe and stable gas that burns quite easily but does not explode.

This gas is then mixed with atomized fuel droplets, drastically increasing the surface are of the combined fuel source and allows it to combust more completely, therefore increasing overall efficiency.

Water contains an absolute ton of energy; three times as much as an equivalent amount of gasoline in fact. We can get at that energy with a homemade hydrogen generator and the awesome thing is, we can do it with parts found locally and for under $65.

You’ll need a good guide to build the hydrogen generator and produce the HHO gas safely and in large enough amounts to improve gas mileage, but they are readily available and generally easy to follow. There are many different configurations and designs but they all operate off the same principle.

You may be asking yourself, if these hydrogen generators really increased gas mileage, why aren’t they on every vehicle bought in America?

Simple economics really. The tax hungry government and big oil do not want you using less fuel or their revenues would go down. Automakers do not want to reduce the harmful deposits left in their engines do to incomplete fuel combustion, drastically reducing engine life and driving future car sales.

That’s fine but they have never played fair. A lot of pressure was put on researchers who have tried to bring this technology to public awareness for the past three decades.

The current gas crisis has been too much for people to bare and the word is out about hydrogen generator technology and the idea of running your car on water, or at least the HHO gas created from water.

But just recently, the largest search engine on the planet banned companies specializing in this technology from advertising on their search engine, any water for gas or run your car on water products or instructional materials.

I believe they were paid off by someone with incredibly deep pockets. Imagine, living in a free country as long as those with the power and money determine what free actually means.

Well, until they completely throw out the first amendment, I will continue to do my part to spread the word through the use of articles. I imagine this too will soon be banned, but for now, you still have access to this amazing technology.

Yes, it is possible to run your car on water by building a hydrogen generator to produce HHO gas, inject it into your engine and drastically increase gas mileage, but don’t wait to long before the powers that be bury this technology once again.

Want to build one yourself? Of course you do! I have a guide at my website that will show you, step by step how to make this hydrogen generator to use water for gas. It’s freakin awesome and the greedy tax hungry government can’t do anything about it! Go to http://MylaMadson.com/hybrid

Through the history of music and guitars, there are bits and pieces of interesting information that all fans enjoy knowing about. There is no single listing of this, so here is a compilation of some fun facts about electric guitars:

Fun Facts

From June 29 to July 9, 2006, the M & I Bank paid a tribute to rock’n'roll’ and Summerfest which is the World’s Largest Music Festival. Two 18-story electric guitars located on two sides of M&I Bank’s headquarters lit up the Milwaukee skyline.

In a wedding ceremony in London in 2001, Guitar fan Chris Black married his Stratocaster.

Jimi Hendrix’s tombstone has a Fender Stratocaster carved on it.

The world’s smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long with strings 50 nanometers (100 atoms) wide.

It is said that Les Paul, soon after prototyping the electric guitar that made him famous, got really drunk one night and made an electric banjo that strangely did not earn him as much recognition as his previous efforts.

Another Les Paul fun fact - Les Paul had a car accident in 1948 and asked the doctor to set his arm permanently in a guitar-playing position.

A Gibson solid body with no serial number is a 1952. Gibson didn’t use any serial number in 1952.

Epiphone, originally a Greek violin company, made banjos from 1923 and in the 1930’s switched to guitars. Epiphone was the only banjo company to successfully switch to guitar production.

Leo Fender was a saxophonist, not a guitarist; the current head of the Corporation is also a saxophonist!

To test the strength and durability of guitar necks, in 1950, Leo Fender balanced the guitar neck between two chairs and stood on it.

Fender uses alder, not the more usual ash for guitars. Alder trees don’t grow large enough to make guitars anywhere except Oregon, within an area only 200 miles by 50 miles.

In a peak year Fender makes over a quarter of a million guitars. They are the largest manufacturer of electric guitars in the world. Fender also makes banjos, mandolins and violins.

The Fender factory makes around 90,000 strings per day. This is over 20,000 miles a year, enough to circle the world. They also make around 950 guitar necks a day!

The Telecaster was originally called the Broadcaster but this clashed with a drum kit of the same name. While the new name was considered, Fender produced guitars with no name on the headstock, and these “Nocasters” are collector’s items.

The highest price paid for an electric guitar at auction, was $959,500 at Christie’s in July 2004 for Eric Clapton’s ‘Blackie’ Stratocaster. The previous record was for Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia’s custom-made ‘Tiger’ - $957,500 in 2002.

To design the Experience Music Project/SciFi Museum at Seattle Center, Frank O. Gehry went straight to the source of rock ‘n roll: the guitar. He bought a couple of electric guitars, cut them up and used the pieces for an early design model. The final design still carries the bright reds and blues of those guitar pieces.

by Werner Wichmann - ElectricGuitarz.com

First of all, you want to make sure you find a head unit that is going to match your car. You don’t want a pink head unit going into a car with a brown interior, it will just look out of place. If all else fails, just use a silver head unit. Now, the head unit is going to replace the previous stereo you had. You can remove your previous stereo one of two ways, by either opening the spring clips, or undoing the bolts that hold it in place. Either way, you will probably have to remove the dash board around it.

When you are done with your head unit installation, which is generally the easiest part of the entire task, you need to think about three components in the car; the amplifier, the speakers and the subwoofer.

The amplifier, which many people forget about, is what will give the head unit’s signal an added bit of power so that it can feed to the speakers, tweeter and subwoofer. You will need an amplifier that is going to be powerful enough to handle going to all your speakers and your subwoofer. If you fail in this task, then you will find the signal quality is quite poor. Typically, people will put the amplifier under a seat if they can to keep it out of the way.

Next, you need to deal with the speakers. This can be very easy or very hard. You may want to have a five-way amp that goes to five speakers. You can connect it to the two in side doors, and then depending on your car’s model and year, you may have to add speakers in the dash, on the kick-panel and on the back side doors. Generally, most will choose to have the speakers in the kick-panel and the rear doors. This will involve wiring, changing the structure of the doors interior and more. It may be easier to not have the speakers in the back side doors, and instead have too small speakers on the dash in the corners.

Now we move on to the subwoofer. There are plenty of considerations here. First of which is the enclosure. You can have a sealed enclosure that will give you very precise bass, but not very deep bass. Another option is a ported subwoofer because it allows for much deeper bass due to a small hold that shoots the bass sound out. Both of these are best put under the seats for the top effect. The other option is a free-air subwoofer. This can sit on a board on the kick-panel, or in the trunk. As long as you have the back secured to a surface so that the back sound is not cancelling out the front sound, you should be fine.

When you buy your subwoofer, make sure that it is meant to be a sealed subwoofer, ported subwoofer or free-air subwoofer. Buying the wrong type means your subwoofer sound will suffer.

The most important things to consider when you are putting your car stereo system together is that you take the time to do it right, have the money for what you want and know what you are doing.

You want to turn heads for the right reason (a great system), and not for the wrong systems (a poorly sounding car stereo system).

Edwardo A. Compton invites you to visit the brand-new car stereo systems website to read and learn more about car stereo, amplifiers, subwoofers, head units, and more. I also encourage you to leave your comments on my car stereo site or make a suggestion of what you would like to read or see. Visit us now: http://www.car-stereo-systems.net or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Gas prices have stabilized somewhat over the last few weeks and even dipped a bit. That’s great news for folks who have long commutes, or who operate vehicle fleets. Most of us seem to relax when gas prices go down ten cents or so, if only because that means that they are at least not rising. In doing so we lose sight of the fact that gas is still really expensive.

The current national average price of gas is $3.94 a gallon and while that is somewhat better than the $4.07 a gallon a month ago, we quickly forget that a year ago gasoline was $2.89 at the pump. That’s a 27% increase in price. Can you imagine if other things in your life were to go up 27%? Most people exist with less than a 10% margin between their income and their bills. An increase of that size in too many things would drive most people irreparably into the red.

 So what are we going to do about it?

Well, to start with, we know that it’s energy in general that is becoming more expensive. While there are certainly people standing to profit from this increase the main cause is that more nations are becoming industrialized and starting to drive cars. China and India represent 1/3 of the world’s population and their booming auto industry is creating unheard of demand for gasoline. On top of that most of the easily accessible hydrocarbon fuel deposits are gone and it costs more money to get at coal and other power and heating fuels. Since many power plants run on oil, this brings the price of all fuels up.

It’s the unfortunate downside to the global economy.

One of the fuels that is being heralded as a potential savior is hydrogen. It is the most common element in the universe and is available in abundant supply on earth. It’s one of the core components of water, H20. Through a process known as electrolysis, the hydrogen can be extracted from water and made available as a fuel. The byproduct of this process is oxygen, not a bad thing to have a refinery spit out at all.

Many car manufacturers have recognized Hydrogen as a promising fuel source and vehicles such as the BMW Hydrogen 7 and the Honda FCX Clarity have been produced. While they are currently only available in limited numbers and markets where there are hydrogen fuel stations, they are out there and it is a positive step for the economy and the world in general as their only exhaust is water vapor.

BMW’s Hydrogen 7 Car uses a fairly regular car engine.

The engines that our car’s use are called Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) and essentially they simply burn something inside of themselves. An example of an External Combustion Engine would be a steam engine where the fire is outside of the engine itself. While these engines have been refined to burn petroleum based fuels, they are capable of running on many other fuels, the only concern being that some fuels are more corrosive, or may be a solvent to some of the elements of the car’s engines.

Luckily hydrogen is not corrosive and none of a car’s components will dissolve in it. In fact with not a lot of alteration, most car engines could run 100% on hydrogen.

How would you store enough hydrogen to run your car on it entirely? Well, quite simply you wouldn’t. It’s not that you couldn’t, but the cost of getting a fuel tank for your car that could safely store that amount of hydrogen is somewhat prohibitive.

So is there an alternative that can help out?

Interestingly enough, there is. The engine in your car would be perfectly happy to get a mixture of Hydrogen and gasoline. In fact, the hydrogen and the extra oxygen that you get from electrolysis actually help the gasoline to burn better. Some people get as much as a 42% increase in their mileage by simply adding a moderate amount of hydrogen to their car’s engine.

That’s the same as paying $2.20 a gallon for gasoline.

So how is this done, you ask? The process is achieved by using a device that you can install under the hood of your car and using electric power from your car’s alternator to power an electrolyzer that produces hydrogen on the fly as it is needed. This means that there is no storage of hydrogen and no issues with having to find a gas station that sells hydrogen as there are less than 200 worldwide. The only thing you have to add to the device is water!

Michael Cooper is an automotive enthusiast. He has owned dozens of cars and has always been interested in new and interesting ways to make them more efficient. He suggests visiting http://makeyourownhydrogencar.com for info on hydrogen cars, or http://waterfuelcell.topconsumerproductreviews.com for more details on how hydrogen kits for cars work.

If you had told me a couple years ago that gas prices would be $4.00 a gallon, I would never have believed you. When I was a little girl, my mother told me that gas would be $2.00 a gallon and that people would not be able to afford to drive. Well here we are at double that. What is going on in this country? Is the government to scared to step in and do something. How about regulating the rate that gas prices are rising. The government says we are headed for a recession. So they sent out a stimulus package to try to help the economy.

OK, so that is a very temporary fix. I don’t know about you but, my check was spent within week of it being cashed. I really feel that the biggest problem in America right now is the price of gas. It affects everything in our lives. If gas is high, then everything we purchase will be higher also. All of our food and supplies for daily life come off of a truck, that got here by gasoline. After paying higher prices when buying food, clothes, and gas, there just isn’t much left for the fun things in life. I am a mother of 5. I can’t just abandon my car all together. If you are in the same boat, then here are some tips to help in the mean time.

1. Don’t top off your gas when filling up. Do you realize that the pumps are set up to suck back up the extra gas that you pump after your tank is full. It does this so your tank will not overfill and spill over. Basically you are paying for gas that you are not getting.

2. Use the lower-octane gasoline. Unless your car is made to utilize the higher octane, you are wasting the extra money you spend on it. Check your owners manual.

3. Tighten your gas cap. Gasoline will evaporate very quickly.

4. Make sure your tires are properly inflated. Under inflated tires will cause resistance and will lower your gas mileage as much as 15%. Inside the drivers side door will tell you how much air your tires should have.

5. Air conditioning is a huge gas guzzler. When in town driving, it is best to roll down the windows if you can stand it. The air conditioner lowers your gas mileage as much as 10% to 20%. However, if you are on the free way it is better to use the air conditioner than to roll the windows down, because of the drag it causes.

6. Keep your engine tuned up. Check your spark plugs. Bad spark plugs can be responsible for lowering your gas mileage 30%. Air filters should be changed every time you change your oil. Air filters are a forgotten thing. It is not something that is commonly changed with your oil. You have to ask for this specifically. An old air filter can lower your gas mileage up to 10%.

7. Take it easy. Accelerating quickly on the freeway can hurt your gas mileage by 33%. Use your cruise control. This will help you to maintain an even speed. Driving at 65 miles per hour compared to 75 will increase your gas mileage by 10%. 55 miles per hour will increase it by 17%. It will take a little longer to get there, but will save you gas.

8. Don’t idle your car. It is not necessary to warm up newer cars. They are made to just start up and go.

9. Plan ahead. Think about what you need to accomplish in the next week and combine trips. You could literally spend half as much as you do right now.

10. Avoid rush hour traffic if at all possible.

Pick the things you can live with and good luck!

I am a busy mother of 5. I enjoy writing about things I have tried out that work for me. If you are interested in reading tips to make life easier for you as a busy mother or father then visit my website. http://abusymother5.blogspot.com

I recently had a friend that purchased a dirt bike for his son. However, this was no ordinary dirt bike because when his son rode the bike, it barely made any noise. I was just amazed at how quiet it was and I knew that this was no ordinary dirt bike. The reason the bike was so quiet is because his son was riding an electric dirt bike. Because the electric dirt bike does not use combustible fuel in virtually makes no noise. But that is only one of the small benefits of having an electric dirt bike.

As of this moment, in the town that I live in gas prices have zoomed up to $4.15 a gallon. Now, when gas was around three dollars a gallon it still wasn’t too much of the big deal for people to spend that kind of money, but now gas is over four dollars and it seems like there’s no end to the fact that it will be going up more. This means that the average American will have to tighten his or her belt and pull in money from wherever they can possibly do it. There is no doubt that you will have to cut corners, was a technology that we have today, we can still enjoy many of the pleasures and hobbies we have in life. What better way to do it then by using an electric vehicle. Electric dirt bikes have all of the features and speed of a regular dirt bike that runs on gasoline but you do not have to pay a high gas prices!

As with most alternative energy vehicles, the electric dirt bike does not require many of the maintenance and repair items that you would encounter with a fossil fuel vehicle. As a matter of fact, there is no oil changes, air filter changes or any of the types of maintenance that he would find on a gas vehicle. This is one of the reasons why electric cars were very unpopular with dealerships. If anybody was happy about the electric car failing, it was the dealerships because this was a source of income that flowed into their service stations on a regular basis.

With the electric car, you have the same situation. You don’t have oil changes, air filter changes in all of the other things that result from fossil fuels. The same could be said about electric dirt bike. Because of the nature of the electric motor, the electric dirt bike has very few mechanical parts that need repaired. Not to say that an electric dirt bike would not have to have regular maintenance of any type. Actually, one of the main areas of maintenance and upgrading,is in the battery department. Because of the fuel of the electric dirt bike is electricity, of course, you have two have something that will store that and delivered a regular basis to the electric motor. This requires a changing of batteries on a seasonal basis.

Now, it all depends on what type of batteries you buy for the electric dirt bike. Most electric vehicles carry the NiMH batteries that are of course rechargeable and a good recharge can take up to eight hours. If you were to ride the bike continuously for 40 minutes it would probably pretty much where the battery out. That would take you up to about 10 miles. There are more expensive batteries that you can get the can hold a better charge. If you have somebody that is very active in too riding electric dirt bikes, they can always take extra batteries with them, but these types of batteries in the size that they are are very expensive.

On most electric dirt bikes you can find anywhere from a 300 to 700 watt motor. Usually the wattage on the motor’s is right around 500, but they are inventing and selling new types of electric dirt bikes almost everyday. These motors and charges can usually carry somebody around 175 lbs. As with a regular dirt bike all of the safety precautions are the same. A person should wear helmets, goggles, knee pads in all of the other things that you need to purchase two keep yourself from getting banged up.

It should be noted also, that the electric dirt bike, like the electric car and electric motorcycles are very environmental friendly, so a person that is conscious of the environment and keeping our planet green will be doing the world a lot of good by writing one of these types of electric dirt bikes. When you add up all of the things that make electric dirt bikes easier on our wallet and nicer for planet don’t forget that they are just the a lot of fun too.

Elmo is the owner and operator of the community site Electric Bikes -N- Scooters. He is also an Education Technologist with a degree in Music Education from Lynchburg College and he teaches History as well. Electric Bikes -n- Scooters is a huge resource site that provides loads of information on Electric Bicycles, Electric Scooters & Solar Energy. His Blog and site is visited by thousands of people each month.

Speaker Positioning

Speaker installation is very critical for performance. Whether you spent $1000 or $10,000 on a set of speakers, if they are not properly installed, they would not sound as they should. Even though it may seem that the best position for most speakers are in the stock housing’s that came with the car e.g. on the door panel near your feet, this is just not so. You would see why such positions are still used however along with alternative solutions such as center channels for 5.1 dolby, LCD screen, in-dash DVD players. There are many factors that need to be considered in placing the speakers in the correct position.

Distance

The first thing to consider is distance. If the left speaker is only a couple feet away from your ears, while the right speaker is several feet away from you, then the sound will arrive at different times giving you poor sound. Since the left speaker is closer, it sounds louder. The best solution is to figure out a location where the difference between the distance of the right speaker to your ears and left speaker (also known as path length difference), are minimal. This is where kick panels become the preferred location.

Multiple Speaker Placement

If you have a system with two or more speakers per side, you need to try out different locations to obtain the best possible sound in your car. If you have a 2-way system with a tweeter and sub per side. The subs are mounted in the stock location at the bottom of the door. The tweeters are mounted high up on the front corner of the door panel. From the driver’s seat, you can see that there are 4 speakers all aimed towards different orientations and all at a different distance to your ears. This interaction of sound waves at different frequencies arriving at your ears at different times seldom sounds good. The best thing to do is to position the woofer and tweeter on each side as close as possible to each other. This is also why kick panels are used so much these days. Professional installers do use some tricks such as inverting the tweeters’ polarity when mounted for example on top of the dash while the woofers are low. Achieving good sound with unconventional mounting schemes is very, very hard and is only achieved after plenty of time has been spent trying different configurations.

Aiming

Our ears can distinguish the direction of sound more easily at higher frequencies. This means that aiming the mids, and most importantly, tweeters towards your ears play a critical role in sound imaging. Midbases are not so critical, but should be also aimed towards the listener’s ears if possible. To figure out the best aiming angle involves many hours -even days- of work. To start, try to aim the speakers towards the center of the car. Play around with different angles until you obtain the best sounding position. Subwoofers should be mounted up front for best sound. Since this is not possible in most cars, mounting subs in the back is not such a bad thing, since most people can’t distinguish where bass comes from. If you have good midbases going down to 60 Hz or less and subs picking up the signal below 60 Hz, then the bass will seem to come from the front.

Enclosures

Subwoofers need a properly designed enclosure to give top performance. Midbases and mids also do sound much better if they are installed in enclosures. The best sounding and easier to build enclosure type for midbases and mids is sealed.

Mounting Speakers

If you are using speakers that fit into the stock location, make sure there are no spaces or holes. Sometimes building a wood or fiberglass baffle helps reduce holes and gives you much better sound. Always be careful when using power tools around speakers. Holes in speakers usually are not covered by the warranty. For unconventional speaker locations, sometimes metal has to be cut. If you have the resources, plasma cutters and pneumatics tools work great. For most of us that do not have these tools, a pair of metal snips (left and right cut) will do the job.

Take your time to plan your system and dont just buy brand and product for the sake of popularity. Sometimes the simplest system is the most effective.

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