Electric Bikes
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Zero Motorcycles’ new DSR/X
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The American factory has just revealed a new adventure bike as part of its growing range of electric bikes. While we might have seen our fair share of commuter scooters and plenty of crazy concepts, actually, there’s been very few practical, realistic, ‘proper’ electric motorbikes to get all that excited about of late. Harley-Davidson has…
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New British manufacturer, Battersea Power Station and a pop-up shop..
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New British electric motorcycle manufacturer Maeving has opened a new pop-up shop at the iconic Battersea Power Station in London. The new shop opened Friday, October 14, 2022, when the Grade II* listed Power Station opened its doors to the public for the first time ever and will be in place until November 11. Maeving…
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Segway test day lands in Lincoln
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Segway, the iconic electric, self-balancing personal transporter manufacturer, has entered the UK’s exploding electric vehicle market by introducing a range of pioneering sit-on E-scooters.
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EVENTS: Test ride a Segway e-scooter. Lincoln. This weekend.
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If coffee beans and battery-powered scooters are your bag, you need to keep your diary free this weekend. Segway might be best known for its funky self-balancing ‘personal transporters’, but in recent years the American-founded, Chinese-owned firm has been working away on a range of scooters and motorcycles. And the first models to make it…
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Kawasaki’s TWO electric bikes are coming soon
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Kawasaki could be poised to become the first big name Japanese factory to reveal a range of electric motorcycles. Recent reports suggest that we’re not going to have to wait too much longer for the first glimpse of the launch of a pair of new battery-powered learner-legal machines from the manufacturer. It shouldn’t come as…
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Lightning Strikes..
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American electric firm Lightning appear to be working on a new off-road-focussed plug-in adventure bike. Exposed in design pictures registered in China, the new machine looks set to go toe to toe with the Italian-made Energica Experia, which stole the march on battery-powered adventure bikes back in May. The filing has been made by Lightning…
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Triumph TE-1 takes to the track!
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British built electric bike wows at Oulton Park with production models now in development… Triumph have announced the end of their TE-1 electric motorcycle development programme by producing an aggressive 175bhp sports naked capable of hitting 100mph faster than a combustion-engined Speed Triple 1200RS. But, before you go reaching for your credit card, the TE-1…
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Hydrogen – Toyota’s swappable solution?
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Could Toyota’s clever hydrogen technology pave the way for the future of motorcycling? The Japanese automotive giant has found a way to safely use hydrogen as a fuel – and this could be the start of the next wave of clean, green vehicles to hit the road. For years the motorcycle industry has been speculating…
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KTM’s ‘high end’ electric motorcycles
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The Austrian firm is rumoured to be extending its partnership with Bajaj to develop a new range of ‘high-end’ electric motorcycles. While the deal isn’t set in stone, Bajaj Executive Director Rakesh Sharma said recently: “We are also in discussion with KTM (and) there is joint work going on where we are looking at platforms…
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Cutting carbon footprints with… cake…
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While this isn’t strictly battery-powered news, the story is centred around one of the coolest electric manufacturers in the game: Cake. The Swedish e-bike firm is looking at replacing plastic parts with paper as part of its quest to reduce its impact of the environment. Paper in place of plastic? Sounds ridiculous, right? But it’s…
