A Fells Point businessman wants to start the electric revolution - ElMoto.net

elmotomaster · 03-25-2009

Ray Carrier is a soft-spoken man with a vast experience in negotiating difficult bureaucracies. French-Canadian by birth, he moved to the United States in 1980. He spent the intervening years mostly overseas, as a human resources consultant, election monitor, and human rights observer in Africa and the Caribbean. Last year, after finishing a contract in Liberia, he decided to look for a job with a little more stability, and an idea for the future hit him. Actually, it just missed him.
"I was in China, visiting my wife's family," he says. "And I nearly got run over. It really woke me up to these things being everywhere."
The vehicle that surprised him was small, and almost completely silent--an electric scooter. In China, where gasoline scooters have been banned in some major cities, the scooters have become a popular way of providing cheap worker transportation without the pollution. It's an idea Carrier is hoping will take hold here, and last week he opened the doors of his electric scooter shop, Green Rider, on Broadway in Fells Point.

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electriKAT · 03-25-2009

Very cool indeed. I am going to pay them a visit this weekend or next as Baltimore is my home town. I will post a review. But if you're going to all of the trouble to bring a product to market, why make a scooter? Blech!

It would have been nice if the author had included an address or website link. Here it is:

Green Rider
Green Rider LLC
723 S. Broadway St.

03-25-2009	#1
elmotomaster Administrator El Moto Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 871 Blog Entries: 13	A Fells Point businessman wants to start the electric revolution Ray Carrier is a soft-spoken man with a vast experience in negotiating difficult bureaucracies. French-Canadian by birth, he moved to the United States in 1980. He spent the intervening years mostly overseas, as a human resources consultant, election monitor, and human rights observer in Africa and the Caribbean. Last year, after finishing a contract in Liberia, he decided to look for a job with a little more stability, and an idea for the future hit him. Actually, it just missed him. "I was in China, visiting my wife's family," he says. "And I nearly got run over. It really woke me up to these things being everywhere." The vehicle that surprised him was small, and almost completely silent--an electric scooter. In China, where gasoline scooters have been banned in some major cities, the scooters have become a popular way of providing cheap worker transportation without the pollution. It's an idea Carrier is hoping will take hold here, and last week he opened the doors of his electric scooter shop, Green Rider, on Broadway in Fells Point. Read more HERE __________________ - Mike El Moto.net My bike \| YouTube \| Timescape Entertainment

03-25-2009	#2
electriKAT Senior Member El Moto Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DC Posts: 328	Very cool indeed. I am going to pay them a visit this weekend or next as Baltimore is my home town. I will post a review. But if you're going to all of the trouble to bring a product to market, why make a scooter? Blech! It would have been nice if the author had included an address or website link. Here it is: Green Rider Green Rider LLC 723 S. Broadway St. Last edited by electriKAT; 03-25-2009 at 08:09 AM. Reason: misspelling

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