The Uno

The Uno is a single-wheeled electric motorcycle based on the same concepts as the Segway personal transport.  Read more about it at Motorcycle Mojo magazine and Green Upgrader.  The Uno is the brainchild of teenage designer Ben Gulak.  In the Green Upgrader article, we learn that

Gulak came up with the idea after a 2006 trip to China where he noticed a lot of people riding internal combustion bikes and horrendous smog.  According to Gulak, “The smog was so thick, we never saw the sun.”  The trip made him realize that there was a need for a compact electric vehicle that would ease congestion and not take it’s toll on the environment.

I think the Uno is a great idea and I would like a production version myself.  I do have one quibble, however.  In China, much electricity is generated by dirty coal burning plants, so it remains to be seen just how much of toll on the environment the Uno would relieve there (or, here, for that matter).  As will all alternative vehicles – especially electrics – don’t think that just because you don’t have an exhaust pipe that you are creating no exhaust.