Vectrix: bankrupt

Vectrix VX-1 (Orin O’Neill photo)

The soap opera surrounding the Vectrix electric scooter begins a new chapter today.

Vectrix: Gone?

I noticed a lot of hits on my previous posts about the Vectrix electric scooter, so I thought it would be worth checking in on the Middletown, R.I. based company.

As you may have seen elsewhere, the company has laid off almost all its staff and shut down its Web site. Vectrix says this is an attempt to conserve cash and postpone a bankruptcy filing, the company hoping for a merger or buyout in the next 30 days.

Vectrix. Vespa Seattle gotz dem…

Vectrix VX-1 at Vespa Seattle (Orin O’Neill photos)

Vectrix updates, updated

The Vectrix electric maxi scooter (Autobloggreen.com)

Judging from search engine and page referral results, lots of you are interested in the Vectrix electric maxi scooter. Sales picked up considerably after the company dropped the price into the $9,000 range.

Autobloggreen has been covering the Vectrix beat much more extensively than anyone I know of, even creating a Vectrix category. Click here, bookmark the page, and you can get all of ABG’s Vectrix stories in one neat little collection.

While Vectrix has announced a new electric scooter for 2009 that will be priced around five grand, the issues of range and charging time remain…

Vectrix update

Orin O’Neill photo

Vectrix has released sales figures, per listing requirements of the London Stock Exchange, and the news is pretty bad. Autobloggreen (in the blogroll under “Other Stuff”) reports the situation in detail.

No, this definitely isn’t old-skool

Unless you’ve been spending your time in a cave on a Himalayan peak, you’ve noticed there’s a great deal of interest in electric vehicles these days. That interest is unfortunately also accompanied by a lot of irrational hype.