Megabus is a cheap bus service in the UK that launched in the Midwest last year. They just recently launched in California. What's so great about Megabus? Trips cost a buck! I priced a trip from San Francisco to San Diego on Greyhound and it cost $60. So if you want to save a buck... or not save a buck, consider Megabus.

You probably won't get to leave the day you like. I had to do a bit of digging at the site but I could find $1 trips easily. Even the most expensive trips I found still looked pretty cheap. There is also a fifty cent (.50) fee or something but who cares? This is dirt cheap! I can't get on a local bus for a buck! Amtrak is like a $100 from LA to Vegas.

Not that you have to go to Vegas. Megabus also goes to San Diego, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and soon Phoenix. Vegas is more fun though :D

[Source: LA Times]

If you like the Enertia but not the price tag, consider Yamaha's Electric Commuter EC-02. It's just $2,000. It looks a lot like the Enertia electric bike, just smaller and much slower. The Enertia's top speed is 50 MPH while the EC-02 can only go 18 MPH. Enertia says their "bikes are not associated with Yamaha. The Enertia design is a clean sheet (not a conversion or extension of a previous design) and was built from conception to be the first street legal production electric motorcycle."

EC-02 is 30 percent recyclable and it can fold away easily. There is a special Ipod edition of the EC-02. That version lets you drop your Ipod in a special dock. You can also swap out the battery in the EC-02. It's pretty tiny and slow but I guess it shows the Enertia is worth the cost. If you ever said, make a cheaper Enertia, well, here is something like what you would get. Go below the fold to see the EC-02 in the wild.

[Source: Gizmodo]