Organic Transit CEO and Founder Rob Cotter inside the ELF during a test ride event in Portland on Tuesday. (Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland) It’s not a bike and it’s not a car, but the ELF trike is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- It's a bright idea for a cycle-loving city such as Portland: a tricycle that's powered by both pedals and the sun. A North Carolina company called Organic Transit has created what it ...

TreeHugger Sami lives in Durham, North Carolina where they make the ELF, a solar and pedal powered hybrid vehicle that is "specifically designed to get the cycle-challenged out of their cars." I ...

If the words “recumbent trike” make your lip curl, we understand. Weird bikes often seem to perpetuate the myth that cyclists are fringey oddballs disconnected from reality. But the ELF deserves a ...

We here at autoevolution strongly support the integration of small electric motors into bicycles, because we say that the electric motor is perfectly suited for that application. On a pedal-powered ...

They're nicknamed Elf, Truckette and Otto, and they look as if they rolled off the pages of a fantasy novel. They are super-efficient solar-electric tricycles. A group of designers and sustainability ...

Riders test solar/pedal-powered trike Riders tested out Organic Transit's ELF solar/pedal trike in a parking lot at McMenamin's Edgefield in Troutdale. The covered vehicle blends a combination of ...

The ELF solar and pedal-powered trike was recently available for test rides in Portland. We went out to take a closer look and meet the company’s founder.

Bob Graves of Hutchinson is used to turning heads when driving, having a longtime passion for hot rods. Lately, he has been turning heads with a different sort of vehicle – an ELF electric tricycle.