Rob Cotter, a former performance engineer and top-gun tuner with Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, knows how to go fast. Now he wants to make a go at going slow. Mr. Cotter is the founder and CEO of the ...

While it’s all very well and good to use an electric vehicle as your around-town ride, full-size electric cars can still be pretty pricey. Also, as many of their critics are quick to point out, the ...

After a successful Kickstarter campaign raised over $225,000, a group called Organic Transit is starting to produce a hybrid vehicle that’s designed to bridge the gap between a bicycle and a ...

Organic Transit’s ELF, an urban mobility solution that fills the space between a bicycle and a car. Legally a bicycle, the ELF is pedal powered and assisted with a solar powered electric motor. If the ...

Organic Transit CEO and Founder Rob Cotter inside the ELF during a test ride event in Portland on Tuesday. (Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland) It’s not a bike and it’s not a car, but the ELF trike is ...

Mark Stewart turns quite a few heads as he zips through the streets on his neon green ELF bike. With each pedal, his feet take turns sticking out from the bottom while a gentle motor hums in the ...

Over the weekend, a lot of riders seemed to think so. On Saturday night, several people wanting and needing to take buses during the next day's street-closing Sunday Parkways contacted me asking to do ...

Our week in the Southeast gave us plenty of memorable moments, but perhaps my favorite of the entire trip was when I stumbled upon the Elf — a pedal-solar electric hybrid vehicle from Organic Transit ...

Take a spin in the ELF, a category-defying new vehicle built here in Durham, and prepare to have this question shouted at you by passing motorists. And bicyclists. And people on the sidewalk. Park in ...

ROB COTTER, A FORMER performance engineer and top-gun tuner with Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, knows how to go fast. Now he wants to make a go at going slow. Mr. Cotter is the founder and CEO of the ...