Report and photos from test ride of Organic Transit’s ELF trike

(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)
It’s not a bike and it’s not a car, but the ELF trike is quickly finding fans in Portland who are looking for something in between.
Organic Transit, the North Carolina-based company that makes the ELF solar and pedal-powered trike, just wrapped up three busy days of test rides (two days in Troutdale and one day in Portland). I dropped by the test ride event Tuesday on the eastbank of the Willamette River near the Hawthorne Bridge to take a closer look, meet the company’s founder and CEO Rob Cotter, and get people’s impressions of these interesting vehicles.