Electric motorcycles may be poised to become the next big thing, but the much-anticipated Lightning Strike strikes out three times...
It’s Here In All Its Glory Lightning Motorcycles has teased its new Strike for weeks now, and the company finally...
A New Schedule Adds Races Following the devastating fire in the paddock that housed all the bikes in Jerez, Spain. Moto E has released a new schedule that actually adds races to the calendar. According to the new schedule, there will be four events and six races held to finish...
It Could Have a Large Selection of Electric Bikes If you thought the future of Harley-Davidson and the motorcycle industry,...
Similar But Not the Same Mugen revealed an updated version of its E.Rex electric dirtbike at the Tokyo Motorcycle Show....
Kawasaki and Triumph are the latest motorcycle companies rumoured to be working on electric motorcycles, based on recent patent and trademark filings. Kawasaki patent The Kawasaki electric motorcycle rumour looks interesting because the patent filings show the big has a substantial cooling element with a radiator. Heat is one of...
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...
Not the Best But Nothing to Sneeze At We recently reported on the Fuell electric motorcycle called the Flow. Fuell is a company put together by former Harley engineer Erik Buell and Francois-Xavier Terny. Together the two have created one of the more interesting electric motorcycle startups out there. There...
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...
Quick Charging Makes the Strike Look Even Better Lightning Motorcycles is just about ready to debut its new Strike model. The Strike has electrified the motorcycle industry with claims of long 150 miles worth of battery power, 150 mph top speed, and a low price of $13,000. All that sounds...
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...
From Old to Young What do you do when your customer base gets too old to continue using your products? You target their grandchildren, of course. At least that’s what Harley-Davidson is doing. In the company’s quest to do a Benjamin Button-type turnaround with its customer base, it has purchased...
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...
75,000 Miles and Counting There are plenty of concerns with battery electric motorcycles. Range is probably the number one, but high on the list is the concern that batteries don’t last forever, and they’re expensive to replace. Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer Tacita sought to show its batteries are designed for...
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...
It’s an Impressive-Looking Bike The electric motorcycle manufacturer Zero has finally released the details of its new SR/F electric motorcycle. The company spent the last couple of months teasing little tidbits of information about its bike, and now with all of the stats in, we can say things look pretty...
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...
Rage Silently on Your Commute There’s a definite electric motorcycle revolution occurring in the motorcycle industry. One of the latest entrants is NXT with its commuter bike called Rage. That’s a pretty extreme name for what is bound to be quite a quiet electric bike. Of course, NXT is hoping...
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...
Another Player to the EV Market Add Druid Motorcycles to the list of companies that make electric bikes. Well, Druid makes an electric bike and a hybrid one. Other than some seriously obnoxious branding and the fact that the company is way too proud of its name, I’m pretty pumped...
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...
Pedals and Electric Power Mopeds were popular machines in the 1970s and 80s, but over time the bicycle/motorcycle bike fell out of style. Now, they’re quite uncommon. You see either scooters or motorcycles, but the pedal moped is a rarity on the road. That may change in the future thanks...
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...
Electric motorcycles are not bound by the physical constraints of internal combustion engines, so just about anything goes, like this electric E2 from Finnish company RMK. Electric motors can be just about any shape and size and you can use multiple motors, while the batteries can also be any shape...
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...
Harley Looking Ahead Harley-Davidson made a big effort towards the future with its new LiveWire. However, that bike hasn’t been very well received. Most people aren’t impressed with the range or price. Basically, $30k is a lot to ask for a motorcycle that only goes about 100 miles per charge....
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...
We reported not long ago that Zero has a new motorcycle in the works. It’s called the SR/F and the company just teased a new image of the bike (shown above). While you can’t tell a ton from the image, you can see that it looks remarkably similar to the...
An Electric Italian Stallion Is Coming Electric motorcycles are starting to really come into their own. I made a prediction...