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Is it a bicycle? A tricycle? No, it's a 4cycle Zero Emissions Machine (ZEM)
Once all the gasoline is gone, we might be back to using muscle power, and that's when this 4cycle ZEM (Zero Emissions Machine) can help transport you and your three closest friends from here to there. With everybody peddling full tilt, this sucker can probably pick up some serious speed.
It's well-equipped to stop you, too, with four hydraulic disc brakes, and two-point seat belts for all four riders. The thing's even ready for night riding, sporting a couple of headlights up front. It reminds us of the Quadcycle prototype we showed you last year, but this 4cycle ZEM is real and available now. After the jump, check out three more angles of this pedal-powered conveyance from Switzerland.
Priced at EUR 5960 (that's just over $8000), it's certainly a lot more pricey than a typical bicycle, but it's sure a better deal than a car, and you don't even have to put any gas into it. It's also available in a two-seat model.
ZEM Europe, via Oh Gizmo
By aorian at 10:44 AM ON 06/29/07
It looks like the manufacturer has lied about their product or don't know what emissions or greenhouse gases are! In order for this machine to get us from point A to point B, we have to pedal... use our muscles, as the article pointed out. The more we exercise the more C02 we expel into the air, the greenhouse gas that ole Al Gore is so torn up about. And according to the man who claims to have invented the Internet, it is the main contributing gas to the whole global warming thing (of course global warming is nothing more than a political shell game, but Al wants you believe that we are the cause and we can fix it!), so there are emissions - CO2 not to mention the occasional methane output.
Still, I think I can find something better to do with $8,000 dollars, than a 4 seat bike! Besides, do you know 4 people that you want to be that close to, when you are sweating on a hot summer day, and their deoderate plays out!!! Talk about emissions!
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