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Looking for a green status symbol? The electric Maxi Scooter from Vectrix could be for you. Yes, it costs three times more than a Vespa and only goes 60 miles between charges, but it might be just the thing for quietly tooling around the Hamptons or Santa Monica.

For something that runs off nickel metal hydride batteries, the Maxi Scooter is zippy, sort of. The $11,000 scooter does 0 to 50 miles per hour in about 6.8 seconds.

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