{"id":138054,"date":"2020-12-21T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=138054&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:47:16","slug":"zero-co2-emission-scooter-approved-for-roads","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/zero-co2-emission-scooter-approved-for-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-CO2 Emission Scooter Approved for Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A zero-CO2 emission scooter developed by high-school students in Dazaifu City received authorization to run on the public roads. On Dec. 3, the four students at Chikushidai High School visited the city&#8217;s mayor to report their invention and received a registration plate for the bike. The young engineers developed an original 1,100 watts motor to allow the bike to climb up 17-degree slopes without a gasoline engine, using hand-wound coils and self-developed measuring equipment. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nishinippon.co.jp\/item\/n\/674859\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nishinippon Shimbun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138055\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chikusidai-hs-bike.jpg?resize=1024%2C738&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chikusidai-hs-bike.jpg?resize=1024%2C738&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chikusidai-hs-bike.jpg?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chikusidai-hs-bike.jpg?resize=768%2C553&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chikusidai-hs-bike.jpg?w=1123&amp;ssl=1 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Dazaifu City Mayor\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2743466009303051&amp;id=1920105384972455\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A zero-CO2 emission scooter developed by high-school students in Dazaifu City received authorization to run on the public roads. On Dec. 3, the four students at Chikushidai High School visited the city&#8217;s mayor to report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":138055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-138054","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-dazaifu","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/138054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}