Battery
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BBL Batteries celebrates half a century as UK battery specialist
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As BBL Batteries approaches its 50th year, it remains as a leading UK battery specialist, embracing the latest technology and offering the very best advice as well as service excellence. BBL Batteries is a leading multi-branch UK-based battery business that focuses on the development, introduction and distribution of new and improved battery technologies to today’s…
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MoreBikes A-Z of Battery Care. Part Two (G-L).
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MoreBikes has teamed up with OptiMate – the battery saving charger people – to shine some light on the dark art of motorcycle batteries and how to look after them. G is for Ground (or Earth) The ground – or earth – is the return path for all of the current supplied by the battery…
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MoreBikes A-Z of Battery Care. Part One.
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MoreBikes has teamed up with OptiMate – the battery saving charger people – to shine some light on the dark art of motorcycle batteries and how to look after them. Find out more at www.optimate1.com A is for Alternator Motorcycles need electricity to power headlights, indicators, instruments and, of course, spark plugs. These tasks…
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AMPED electric balance bikes now on sale in the UK. Get your little motorcyclist started early.
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The new AMPED A10 electric cycle bridges the gap between standard balance bikes and motorcycles, offering the perfect way to introduce the skills of throttle control and balance to children aged from two to six years. The AMPED A10 uses a 100W motor, powered by a 18V IBV Lithium battery, capable of a top speed…
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Here’s Yamaha’s funky e-scooters (official unveil at Tokyo Show in two weeks time)
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This is a nice thing to see ahead of the big show in Japan, a range of new electric scooters from Yamaha that (for once) look pretty promising and the sort of scoot you could see yourself actually jumping on. Two of the three are concepts, one is going into production. We’re all over this…
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KTM buys GAS GAS (well, a 60% share in the Spanish company, at least)
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KTM has announced that it has joined up with Black Toro Capital, the owners of Spanish motorcycle brand GAS GAS, to develop petrol and battery-powered motorcycles in Spain. KTM said: “KTM Industries AG (in the future renamed to PIERER Mobility AG) – as one of the global leading European Powered Two-Wheeler (PTW) companies – announces…
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Harley-Davidson LiveWire all electric motorcycle, here we go then!
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Here we go then! We’re about to go and ride the finished, production-ready Harley-Davidson LiveWire all electric motorcycle. The route for this World Launch is going to take us around Portland, Oregon in the States where we will see just how the 249kg, Showa suspension-equipped, 105hp, 86ft-lb ‘next wave’ of Mikwaukee metal behaves in the…
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Yamaha unveils new ELECTRIC scooter. AND it comes with interchangeable batteries.
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After joining forces with Gogoro last year, Yamaha has just revealed its new EC-05 electric scooter. Yamaha’s starting to get serious about electric. A couple of months ago it was announced that its joining forces with the biggest Japanese bike brands going to develop electric tech together – and last year, it teamed up with…
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SECRET PLANS: Kawasaki’s BATTERY-powered Ninja 400.
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What do you think to this Kawasaki BATTERY-POWERED Ninja 400 that hinges the ‘engine’ unit out of the left side of the machine in one smooth movement? The patent’s from a couple of years ago – but we thought we’d remind you about this seriously clever concept, in light of the widespread uptake of electric…
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If Tesla made a motorcycle, hope it made a motorcycle that’s pretty much like this…
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What do you reckon to these designs from industrial designer James Gawley for an all-electric motorcycle that would fit into the Tesla style of future vehicles? The fellas at German site, Motorrad have uncovered these designs by Gawley for an electric motorcycle that features a large hole in the front third to let the maximum…
