Not an Indian Motorcycle electric bike, but an Indian-made Emflux ONE electric bike may soon be coming to Australia. The...
Italian electric motorcycle company Energica has unveiled its race bike for the 2019 MotoE World Cup series to be run...
Electric motorcycles and scooters do not make financial sense yet, but electric power convert Oliver van Bilsen says after living with an electric scooter he would not go back to petrol power. Oliver lives and works in London where he received a Plug-in Motorcycle Grant on the purchase of his...
Electric bikes will race in support MotoGP races from 2019 and the Italian electric motorcycle company Energica will supply the...
Electric motorcycles are coming sooner than we think and the benefits could outweigh the drawbacks such as high purchase price,...
Often called the “Tesla of motorbikes”, Italian firm Energica has unveiled its third model, the retro Eva EsseEsse9. Unlike most electric bikes which look modern or even futuristic, this looks quite classy and could almost be mistaken for one of the new breed of retro bikes. It seems retro is...
Famous Spanish motorcycle manufacturer Bultaco has produced its first street moped, the Albero, powered by an electric motor. In 2014, Bultaco...
Zero Motorcycles continues to improve the range of its electric bikes, now claiming a maximum of 360km, up 40km from...
The famous maker of the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle is now turning its attention to building electric motorcycles. It’s not uncommon for weapons and motorcycles to be made in the same factory. Doing World War 1, most British motorcycle companies also made munitions. BSA started life as the Birmingham Small...
Honda is set to reveal the Riding Assist-e electric version of the self-balancing concept it unveiled in January, 2017. The Riding...
Italian electric motorcycle company Tacita has launched an electric cruiser. It looks a lot like a Harley-Davidson Street 500 and...
Since batteries and electric motors can take just about any shape, designers are free to create all sorts of strange vehicles, even this board tracker from European company Avionics. They have unveiled their electric board-tracker-style moped made of wood and steel with orders from September, but no prices announced yet....
Tasmanian motorcycle company Braaap believes it is the first company to make an electric motorcycle in Australia and is giving...
BMW’s vision of the future for riders is encompassed in the Concept Link electric scooter that knows where you’re going and...
After a 50-year gap, Czech scooter brand Čezeta has revived the iconic torpedo-shaped 506 scooter, but now as an electric vehicle. Čezeta built scooters from 1957 to 1964 as a subsidiary of Česká Zbrojovka Strakonice (ČZ) which made motorcycles from 1935 to 1997. Production resumed in 2013 with the prototype...
Honda has signed a deal with Hitachi Automotive Systems to develop and make motors for electric vehicles. While the Memorandum...
The biggest barriers for electric motorcycles are range and recharging times, but now a couple of achievements are set to...
A Chinese company is about to launch a small electric motorcycle with retro styling and a retro named to honour world record holder Burt Munro. Munro Motor has developed the Munro 2.0 to honour the Kiwi who set several land-speed records on his 1920s Indian Scout and was immortalised in the...
Lately there has been a flurry of good, bad and ugly electric motorcycles and scooters from motorcycle manufacturers, boutique designers and...
Italian electric sports bike company Energica has unveiled a scrambler concept that finally shows how their patent-pending battery avoids overheating...
Zero Motorcycles has announced their 2017 models will have increased range up to 200 miles (320km), seemingly kicking down one of the barriers for buyers. However, the extended range only comes with the purchase of an optional $4790 ($US2700) Power Tank. Interestingly, only one power tank has been sold in Australia over the past...
Shortly after BMW Motorrad unveiled its self-balancing Vision 100 Next motorcycle, Thrustcycle has unveiled their own version of a self-balancing...
The UK Government is about to provide a £1500 (about $2400) subsidy on the price of electric motorcycles and scooters...
BMW Motorrad will add two new motorcycle models and has confirmed its commitment to an electric future with the launch of two variants of its C evolution electric scooter, one with up to 160km of range. In a press release regarding its display at the biennial INTERMOT motorcycle show in Cologne next...
It’s been a long time since Zero Motorcycles started its journey and now they have released a new DSR to...
Future motorcycles could run on all types of fuels, including electricity, after US government defence contracts have yielded two prototype...
Producing motorcycles with a 3D printer has moved to the next stage with the Airbus aviation company now printing and selling electric motorcycles. The global company that makes Airbus planes also operates large-scale industrial printers to produce components. Now they have turned their attention to producing an electric motorcycle frame using...
There seems little doubt that Victory Motorcycles is determined to crack into the sports bike market, judging by its racing...
Two new innovations from Toyota and Honda have implications for future motorcycle powertrains. Toyota engineers believe they can replace the...
Not many electric bikes enthuse us with their whisper-quiet power and ungainly looks, but this handmade retro electric moped is an exception. The , built by Polish brothers Marcin and Michal Bielawski, won the gold medal at the recent international trade fair for “Ideas – Inventions – New Products” in Germany....
Electric motorcycles will again be a major part of the sixth annual World Advanced Vehicle Expedition Trophy, the world’s biggest...
The world’s most popular two-wheeler, the Honda Super Cub, will soon have an electric version. Announcing plans to go into...
Charging times and battery range may not be an issue for electric motorcycles and cars with researchers looking at turning roads into electricity generators. The US government is funding research into kinetic roads that harvest movement to make electricity and now installing solar panels on roads is being considered. Both...
Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer Energica has produced a naked version of its Ego superbike. The Eva electric streetfighter is slightly less...
This Spanish-made solar scooter docks in a solar charging station and switches on and off via an iPhone app that also controls...
BMW Motorrad has unveiled its first electric sports bike, the eRR “experimental vehicle”, to follow its C-evolution electric production scooter. BMW has an eye on an electric future with its i3 and i8 electric cars and now seems to be spreading that to its Motorrad division. The eRR is a...
Electric bikes have received a jolt from Zero Motorcycles with the addition of two new models and an optional Super...
The rumours have been around for a while that Apple is planning an electric car, but their latest recruitment drive...
Two new developments in the electric vehicle industry are both good news and bad news for the move toward electric motorcycles. On the good news side, a Super Charger has been developed for the electric Zero Motorcycles which will recharge a battery in under an hour. DigiNow and eMotorWerks have...
Electric motorcycles charged from mains power are starting to make inroads into mainstream production, but an African university is already...