Wind powered vehicles

Wind Powered Trikes

July 19, 2010 by kris de decker Filed Under: Bicycles, Bikes, Human power, Pedal power, Random, Recumbent tricycles, Travel, Tricycles, Trikes, Wind Power, Wind powered vehicles

Pterosail Trike Systems is sailing and cycling over 3,000 miles from coast to coast across the USA this summer. The Pterosail is a street-legal recumbent tricycle with sails. It can reach up to 40 mph in good winds. No wind? Pedal. See also, below: the Whike, a Dutch made sail assisted trike.

Guido Vigevano’s Wind Car (1335)

July 16, 2009 by kris de decker Filed Under: Inventions that never made it, Low-tech cars, Military technology, Random, Travel, War technology, Warfare, Weapons, Wind Power, Wind powered vehicles, Windmills

“Chapter XII. On the way of making a second waggon which is propelled by the wind without draught animals, and which dashes violently over open country to the confusion of all troops”

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