Kawasaki and Triumph are the latest motorcycle companies rumoured to be working on electric motorcycles, based on recent patent and...
An Electric Speed Demon Debuts In Japan At the Toko Motorcycle Show, Mugen debuted the latest iteration of its Shinden...
Could This Change Everything? Honda is a dominant force in the motorcycle world. It’s changed the course of the industry in the past, and now I wonder if they’re about to do it again. Meet the Honda CR Electric prototype. The publication Moto-Station recently shared some images of the bike...
Not the Best But Nothing to Sneeze At We recently reported on the Fuell electric motorcycle called the Flow. Fuell...
That’s Not Even Its Fastest Run If you want to watch one of the eeriest things you’ve probably seen in...
A Unique Motor for a Unique Bike We recently reported on the Fuell motorcycle and ebike. While the ebike is interesting, the electric motorcycle called the Flow is what really grabbed our attention. Erik Buell and Francois-Xavier Terny are two of the guys making this company happen, and Motorcyclist Magazine...
Quick Charging Makes the Strike Look Even Better Lightning Motorcycles is just about ready to debut its new Strike model....
Is Kawasaki Getting Close? Kawasaki patents of an electric motorcycle have surfaced before. Now more details are coming out thanks...
Californian electric motorcycle company Fly Free has opened up pre-orders for their retro bikes starting at just $4159 (about $A5870) through an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign. Backers will not get a refund if the bikes do not go into production and there is no guarantee they will. However, the Long Beach company...
From Old to Young What do you do when your customer base gets too old to continue using your products?...
Bad Name, Cool Idea Most people remember Buell. The company went limp in 2009 and has existed only to produce...
Innovative motorcycle engineer Erik Buell has unveiled his first electric machines, the Fuell Fluid e-bike and Flow electric motorcycle. Erik has had a rags-to-riches-to-rags story in motorcycling that keeps on surprising. The former Harley-Davidson engineer developed the Buell brand in 1983, sold 49% to Harley in 1993 and Harley took...
75,000 Miles and Counting There are plenty of concerns with battery electric motorcycles. Range is probably the number one, but...
Pedals and Electric Power The idea of the moped has been around for a long time. Basically, it’s a bike...
Zero Motorcycles has pulled the rug out from underneath the coming Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric sports bike with its new Zero SR/F that looks uncannily like the Milwaukee product. However, the Zero SR/F has better performance and range but costs about $US11,000 less than the LiveWire. The Harley is due in September...
It’s an Impressive-Looking Bike The electric motorcycle manufacturer Zero has finally released the details of its new SR/F electric motorcycle....
The Electrified Future Is Now Don’t be fooled by the unassuming plug in the wall, electric motorcycles are the silent...
Battery Technology Isn’t Quite There Yet The future is electric. That’s what Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali said at a University of Bologna event not too long ago. In an interview with Motorcycle.com, Domenicali clarified his remarks. He said that he still believes in what he said, but that the electric future may...
Rage Silently on Your Commute There’s a definite electric motorcycle revolution occurring in the motorcycle industry. One of the latest...
The First Photo Looks Good Lightning Motorcycle’s new Strike bike is set to be fully revealed in March. Until then,...
New Patent Drawings Reveal Progress It would seem that Kawasaki has an electric motorcycle it’s working on. Visordown nabbed some patent drawings that show how the bike is progressing. In short, Kawasaki’s getting closer. There are two drawings that show some interesting things about the bike. The first shows a...
Another Player to the EV Market Add Druid Motorcycles to the list of companies that make electric bikes. Well, Druid...
It’s a Bit More Upright If you were worried that the Lightning Motorcycles Strike was going to have the same...
(Contributed post for our eco-friendly UK readers) With air pollution responsible for some 50,000 deaths a year in Britain, electric vehicles may just be the future. However, their expensive price tags and charging mishaps mean that many people avoid them completely. Electric cars may be well-known, but electric motorcycles are...
Pedals and Electric Power Mopeds were popular machines in the 1970s and 80s, but over time the bicycle/motorcycle bike fell...
Triumph Motorcycles is surveying customers with an email asking if they’ve ridden an electric motorcycle and whether the British company...
Another Funky Electric Motorcycle Electric motorcycle startup RMK showed off renderings of a future bike back in the summer of 2018. Now the company has a real-deal prototype that it will show off at the 2019 MP19 Motorcycle Show in Helsinki. The E2 prototype looks just as bonkers as the renderings, and...
Electric motorcycles are not bound by the physical constraints of internal combustion engines, so just about anything goes, like this...
If the Australian Greens had their way, we would all be riding electric motorcycles like the one above by 2030...
A Different Kind of Ducati I used to think Ducati and mountain bikes didn’t go together, but like many other times in my life, I’ve been proven wrong. Apparently, you can buy a Ducati electric mountain bike. The company calls its new pedal and battery-powered bike the MIG-RR E-mtb. You...
Harley Looking Ahead Harley-Davidson made a big effort towards the future with its new LiveWire. However, that bike hasn’t been...
Rechargeable batteries with magnesium instead of lithium could extend the range of electric vehicles as much as 50% and make...
Reserve One of Two New Versions Lightning Motorcycles has a new model in the works called the Strike. We shared a teaser of the upcoming electric motorcycle not long ago. Now the company has opened up for reservations. The company said that it decided to open up reservations for the...
We reported not long ago that Zero has a new motorcycle in the works. It’s called the SR/F and the...
An Electric Italian Stallion Is Coming Electric motorcycles are starting to really come into their own. I made a prediction...
The world’s fastest electric motorcycle, the 351km/h Lightning LS-218, will soon have a mass-market brother called the Strike that beats Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire electric. A teaser photograph of the Strike above) shows a Ducati-esque set of headlights. It will start at $US12,998 (about $A18,000) when it is released in March, compared...
A New Electric Motorcycle for the Masses While the LS-218 electric motorcycle from Lighting Motorcycles is a high-dollar item designed...
Making the Harley LiveWire Look Inexpensive NOVUS, a German electric motorcycle company, revealed its new electric motorcycle at the Consumer Electronics...
The big electric motorcycle battle is looming this year between Harley-Davidson with its expensive LiveWire and Zero Motorcycles who are launching a new “effortlessly powerful” naked bike. But Australia will be at least another year or more behind. Harley-Davidson Australia won’t introduce the LiveWire, predicted to cost more than $40,000, until...
The LiveWire is Now Truly Alive Harley-Davidson is in the process of turning a new leaf, and the company made...