Nashville Scooters

Networking Scooters at Nashville Events

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:43:30 +0000

One of the great things about Nashville, and likely many cities once you become part of them, are its smaller events. The opportunity to meet people in a small group setting is a great way to market you company and ideas. One of those events in Nashville is Barcamp Nashville. However, there is so much [...]

Nogas Scooters featured in the Nashville Scene Magazine

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:50:56 +0000

Jack Silverman of the Nashville Scene recently wrote an article about us – printed in the April 11, 2011 issue. It was so good, I thought I’d repost it here in case you missed it: Nashvillian James Arledge leads the charge with his NOGAS line of electric scooters When it comes to the future of [...]

Electric Cars subject to battery costs

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:48:09 +0000

The price of Toyota cars may be coming down since some of that price is tied to the battery. Toyota’s battery relies a great deal on rare earth metals mined mainly in China. Since China and Japan had a political argument last year, China began restricting export of its rare earth metals – and that [...]

Electric Car Conversions

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:49:44 +0000

While it’s rare to see one, electric car conversions have been taking place since at least 1979 when Electro Automotive in California started doing it. Since then the technology has become computerized and much more efficient. Along with scooters and electric vehicle charging stations, we convert Toyota Prius hybrids into full plug-in electric vehicles. NPR [...]

The 100-Year Old Electric Car

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:37:03 +0000

by Jay Leno Published May 1, 2007 in Popular Mechanics All the current interest in hybrids and other vehicles with some sort of alternative powertrain is kind of amusing to me. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for pursuing other ways to power cars. But I smile because I’ve owned three alternative energy cars [...]

2011 List of Electric Vehicles in the US

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:39:38 +0000

How viable is the electric vehicle? According to this 2011 lists of electric vehicles, there are a lot of people counting on it. What’s crazy is the fueling problem still hasn’t been addressed yet. We have provided Nashville it’s first electric vehicle charging station – but that’s just 1. Are people really going to stand [...]

Electric Scooter Enthusiasts are Everywhere

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:13:48 +0000

Scooter forums, communities, group rides and Facebook pages are on the rise. In the last few weeks I found ScootNashville.com, TN Maxi Riders on Facebook and the Kentuckian Scooter Club. In Nashville alone there are weekly Scoot Meet-ups, Natchez Trace rides and East Nashville get togethers. This past spring the Kentuckian Scooter Club held an [...]

Top 5 Electric Motor Scooters (aka Mopeds)

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:40:59 +0000

We are proud to say we are featured in this list of top 5 electric motor scooters. Our brand certainly doesn’t have the name recognition that the Vectrix or Vespa do, but that’s not 1. Vectrix Maxi-Scooter - This is more of an electric motorcycle than a scooter. The VX-1 has a max speed of [...]

Nashville’s first public access electric vehicle charging station

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:47:11 +0000

On September 2, 2010, NoGas Electric became the first company to unveil a public access electric vehicle charging station in Tennessee. Our owner, James Arledge, had these words to say: “I stand before you with an experience that I don’t think many of you have had yet. And that’s the experience of riding and driving [...]

Can a Nashville electric scooter company save the world?

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:21:31 +0000

Nashville’s Nogas Electric Scooters started on a trip to China. The observance that electric scooters were a way of life in China and barely a blip on the radar here in the U.S. was startling. Thousands and thousands of Chinese citizens live without the need to buy gasoline and yet we struggle. So the question [...]