As we cruise off to work at 10-15 mph on our forty mile plus range e-bikes, let's look back at a pioneer of today's electric bike technology.
Neil Armstrong "made one small step" (we trust, anyway), in 1969 - but following a further two visits by his friends from NASA, the Americans got fed up with walking and decided to take along some "transport".
The lunar buggy - the world's (the Galaxy's? the Solar System's?) most sophisticated electrically driven vehicle to date, made its debut. The cost of the four vehicles was a bargain at $38M US. Only three were ever used, on Apollo Missions 15,16 and 17.
That's quite a lot of money for a vehicle with a top speed of 8mph - in one-sixth earth's gravity.
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