EVUK letters to the Spanish Corporate media: El Pais, El Mundo etc.

- have we all been taken for a ride(auf den Arm genommen) ?

From Munich to Berlin - 370+ miles/600+ km - but was it all just an elaborate hoax, a crass publicity stunt by DBM & Lekker Energy ?

Lost in Translation:
Unless you happen to be a German-speaking blogger or de.Googler you will almost certainly be hearing this here & now for the first time:
- all of 16 days ago Germany's historically and inEVitably EV-hostile German Automobile Association ADAC launched a bilious, savage attack on the Audi A2 EV range record set, set up, engineered, orchestrated on October 26th by Lekker Energy and celebrated(prematurely?) lithium cell miracle workers at Berlin-based DBM Energy.

All smiles - after 370+ EV miles ? Click for post-record clip

For more than a month (..most of November) Germans marvelled at the remarkable feat - dubbing it the "Miracle of Berlin"..until that is the still largely lost-in-translation ADAC attack of Nov 28th.
Note: in early December EVUK successfully contacted DBM Energy by phone and email seeking clarification - were these all just,er, empty charges ?
And would DBM at the very least be issuing a sorely needed, surely urgent press release defending themselves against ADAC's scathing criticisms and accusations ? We were politely asked to submit our questions via email. Ominously though, within 48 hours DBM Energy's website was removed and replaced with a single page of multi-tongued Yuletide greetings.
So in similar seasonal spirit - if anyone would like to reciprocate and wish DBM Energy a Merry Xmas, inquire about New Year resolutions etc etc - here are the company's telephone & email contact details:
Tel: Thomas Reckermann
("Publiplikator") +49 030 - 200 898 22
Mobile: +49 170 - 791 999 3
or try +49 30 7007 2890
Fax: +49 30 7007 2898
Email: presse@dbm-energy.com, office@dbm-energy.com

Lekker Energy:
Telefon: +49 (0) 180-11 50 111
or +49 (0) 30 / 430 949 101
Telefax: +49 (0) 180-10 01 176
E-Mail: energieinfo@lekker-energie.de

We've also asked why DBM's erstwhile pre-Xmas website never at any point carried a single reference to the Munich-Berlin "record-breaking" run - the most recent entry in its Presse/Media section was a few months old and concerned DBM Energy's allegedly world-beating yet somehow terrifically unexciting lithium-powered fork-lift trucks.
So - from the Miracle of Berlin(and Autobahn E51) to the Miracle on 34th Street - who believes in Santa Claus now ?

Sorry guys, but - ADAC's charges aside - if you have genuinely conjured up a game-changing energy-storage technology - a lithium Lekkerbissen(ho,ho) - with the potential to revive, resuscitate and recharge the world's auto industry and flat-lining economy - why(in contrast to every common-or-garden 1000lb pumpkin grower, super-fat cat owner etc) did you never seek Guinness Book of Records validation ...and again...why did you never report or even mention the Munich-Berlin "achievement" on your own website ??(Lekker Energy still does - DBM Energy never did..)

Links:
The ADAC attack of November 28 - German only.

NoTricksZone breaks the English-language silence(Dec 10) - 3 days after EVUK's own inconclusive phone & email contact with DBM Energy.
Die Zeit - "Superbattery - Dubious Record"

Clean Thinking(!): in January 2010 DBM Energy received the "Innovation of Reason" award in Berlin. According to Clean Thinking, DBM Energy had been finding it difficult to attract the attention and interest of major automakers(Quote/Zitat: "Bislang hat DBM Energy allerdings Schwierigkeiten, die Autobauer auf die eigene Technologie aufmerksam zu machen").

Breaking Tidings ! Festive EV* slated to shatter Round The World EV* Record - in "late December"...     (*EV = Elf or Elves Vehicle)

(Donner & Blitzen Newswire/Yuletube)

(Dec 27) Well - did Rudolph really "go down in history" - or was it all just pure fantasy ? Red faces all round ? Let's hope not. Click here...oder hier...for latest ...

Electric Bike fits the Bill - London's Royal Parks Police take delivery of state-of-the-art electric mountainbike - courtesy EVUK and Ecolux UK. (Feb 2002)

One bright metropolitan afternoon, about a year ago, EVUK's Moira Govan strode purposefully past Buckingham Palace, jogged over to St.James Park, and in broad daylight brazenly accosted a policeman out and about plodding the beat (Note: 'accosting' is not - yet - an arrestable offence...). What was she thinking of?

Well, we'd all read about the Royal Parks police's nationally reported claim-to-fame in being the first UK force to 'get their skates on' - a popular if predictable headline at the time - by taking to rollerblades ...but we were - and still are - keen to see UK police shift up a gear or 10 and follow in the footsteps / cycletracks of America's trailblazing e-bike cops..... Anyway, back to the scene of our little London crime-initiative ...after cornering said unsuspecting Police Constable, Moira G. proceeded - Your Honour - to make a very decent proposal indeed: "Have you ever thought of switching to e-bikes like so many US police departments have?" Whereupon PC Nigel K.(we'll preserve his right to anonymity here..) confessed to having long entertained secret designs on some kind of energy-saving electric wheels : he'd read about America's 'Zapped-up' cycle cops and really fancied the idea of zipping round on a speedy, stealthy steed of his own. Nuff said - we were on the case like a police-dog on a fresh scent-trail.

The rest could be set to make royal bicycling history and will hopefully set a very useful 'legal' precedent in the fight against ever-burgeoning street(and park!) -crime.

After spending several months searching for the very best value, best-technology, longest-range e-bike and after many thwarted attempts to locate pro-innovation sponsors....we finally got a result and the mighty Ecolux Hurricane full-suspension ATB-style mountainbike literally swept everyone off their feet. After putting the bike 'on trial' for a few weeks the verdict was unanimous - this was the kind of police 'endorsement ' we did want. PC Nigel K. reports that despite some initial teasing(sic) problems - ie. giggles from colleagues - the Hurricane is proving very popular indeed. Acting Superintendant Derek Pollock adds: "A journey across the park that would normally take an officer half an hour on a traditional bicycle will now only take 10 minutes".

At present just one e-bike is in use but the signs are good that more will follow if sponsors can be found. So..roll up! If there are any companies out there who'd like to see their company name and logo displayed on the battery-box and mudguards of one or several of these eye-catching, head-turning machines as they whizz around many of London's world-famous tourist hotspots - please contact EVUK at editor@EVUK.co.uk or Ecolux UK

Click here for photo of PC Nigel K. putting the Hurricane through its paces.

- Click here for 'Realcycles' photo-report - shorts-and-all - on Royal Parks e-bike initiative.

Click here for Royal Parks Police / Ecolux ebike group-photo.

Hot News! Ecolux Police "Enforcer" ebike just arrived - police, cycle paramedics can't keep their hands off it! See stunning full detail, high-definition photo of Enforcer.

More Hot News! "Tornado" - latest Ecolux ebike just arrived in UK. You'll be the torque of the town with this sparkling Harley D. of an ebike...and turn more heads than Tom Cruise.

We trialled it for two weeks: the power of this machine is simply breathtaking and will leave a smile on your face long after you've whizzed from A to B to A laughing all the way at all those fuming, gridlocked drivers.(Oh - and just to rub it in - you will always be the first away at the lights...now that's what we call Freedom of the Road / Easy Rider ebike-style.)

See also: BBC Radio Gloucestershire "in the saddle" ebike (Tornado) interview with EVUK's Moira Govan.