(UPDATE to Lightning Motors sets electric motorcycle world land speed record at Bonneville)  This week is the BUB Speed Trials on the Bonneville salt flats, and both MotoCzysz and Lightning Motors are there attempting to win the title of “Fastest Production Electric Motorcycle in the World”. The Lightning Motors team has claimed a series of […]

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BREAKING: This week the Lightning Motors team is on the Bonneville Salt Flats for the yearly time trials, and on their first time run, with a speed of 162 miles/hr, they have set the AMA and FIM land speed record for electric motorcycles. They are making this speed attempt fresh from winning the TTXGP North […]

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Yesterday Matthew Dieckmann, 29, of Santa Rosa California died in a motorcycle accident. Matt was an entrepreneur in the electric motorcycle field, being the owner of ElectricRaceBikes.com, a small business selling parts for high performance electric motorcycles, and the owner of the Electric Race Bikes team. The Electric Race Bikes team, consisting of Matt and […]

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Last winter Chip Yates wowed the electric motorcycle scene with his plan for a powerful electric superbike, which would he would race in this years TTXGP season, declaring that “2010 is really the pioneering year for electric superbike racing.” While the 2010 TTXGP and e-Power season has been amazing, Chip Yates team was not there […]

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The TTXGP 2010 race season has been in a constant state of flux the whole year, so we should not be surprised at the latest news. Last week a couple blog posts surfaced claiming that the often rescheduled TTXGP Italy races were being canceled. Over the following days the TTXGP Twitter account was sending updates […]

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Balqon, the maker of electric big trucks and drive systems, has received a purchase order for drive systems from a new dealer in China.  The dealer, DynaProTech, plans to integrate the drive systems into electric buses, heavy duty trucks and commercial vehicles for use in China.
The deal is part of what Balqon CEO Balwinder Samra […]

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Yesterday MotoCzysz announced a partnership with their motor supplier, Remy International, to deliver an electric drive system to the market under the D1G1tal Dr1ve brand name. MotoCzysz is one of the handful of motorcycle race teams racing with electric motorcycles. They have raced twice on the Isle of Man, winning the 2010 TT Zero race, […]

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The Arcimoto is an electric three-wheeled motorcycle sporting an enclosed cabin reminding some of a spaceship. After a few years’ development the Arcimoto team is refining the design and preparing to enter production. Arcimoto attended the recent CleanTech and PlugIn 2010 conferences in San Jose, showing their 3rd prototype, where this writer was able to […]

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There’s an old adage that “sex sells” and we have an opportunity to witness this put to the test. Both Coda Automotive and Fisker are running advertising campaigns for their respective cars right now, but they are taking very different approaches. 
Fisker’s commercial (posted on Aug. 20) for their Karma PHEV is an outright sex story […]

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In an exciting finish to the TTXGP North America season, Michael Barnes wraps up the TTXGP North America championship. The race got off to a clean start and for the first few laps, unlike previous races, most of the pack was close together. Barnes, on the Lightning Motorcycles bike led from the start to the […]

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