Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on July 2010

Here’s just the thing to zip around town on. Yamaha Motor’s new eco-friendly electric EC-03 scooter is powered by lithium-ion batteries and can travel around 43 kilometers on a single charge. When you’re done, just jack it into a regular home socket and it’ll be juiced up and ready to go in six hours or so. The new scooter, which can be ridden with a motorcycle or car driver’s license, goes on sale from September and will cost about ¥252,000.