Motorcycles

If Chinese manufacturer Niu gets the price tag right on this little fun machine, it might just be the affordable, clean, practical electric commuter the Western world has been waiting for. It promises 100 mph performance and 80+ miles of range.

With its electronically variable "Shift" ergonomics and a 360-degree "Co-Pilot" advance warning haptic feedback system, the Damon Hypersport is an ambitious bike. It's also very, very fast, and offers an impressive range for its price tag.

This sweet-looking electric motorcycle has a relatively small, lightweight 9-kWh battery, and yet it boasts a 300-km (186-mi) urban range and superbike-level acceleration thanks to an ultracapacitor hybrid system unlike anything we've seen before.

Straight outta Poland, this custom Yamaha Niken three-wheeler scares us a bit. A skeletal, bare-metal insect of a thing, it just needs a Terminator riding on its back to look like the ultimate post-apocalyptic bike of doom.

Italian electric motorcycle manufacturer Tacita is preparing to launch a new rally-focused bike in early January – and has just announced that it'll take the T-Race Rally out for a public debut at the world's greatest and most historic rally event.

The motorcycle business has gone to some interesting places in 2019. We may not have seen 3D printed frames, or adaptive cruise control, or thruster rockets make it through into mass production, but 2019 had its own crop of ideas. Let's take a look.

Just over a year ago, UK startup Zapp revealed an eye-catching electric scooter called the i300 that promised enormous torque and fast acceleration. Now the city roller has entered production, with the first deliveries expected to start in late Q4.

Electric powertrains require no air intake, and are completely weather-sealed, so many of them are capable of riding along underwater. Here's a video of a high-powered Russian motocross bike doing just that.

These active noise-cancelling earbuds are claimed to kill engine and wind noise to an adjustable degree, while offering full Bluetooth comms and an intercom, in a zero-installation format that works with any motorcycle helmet, or without one at all.

French company Efesto has built a kit that can take your 205-odd horsepower Ducati Panigale, and turn it into a 300-horse hybrid widowmaker, with a 40-minute all-electric commuting range. Unfortunately, it looks like a Hyosung with a tumor.

Kiwi company UBCO has worked over its 2WD electric utility bikes for 2020, including a street-legal version, and it's also pulled the covers off its FRX1 e-trailbike, a 20-horsepower, silent mud flinger that looks like an absolute riot.

This outrageous machine from South African carbon specialists BST has to rank as the most shamelessly futuristic electric motorcycle design we've ever seen. Penned by ex-Ducati design chief Pierre Terblanche, it's an 80-kW, wheelie-happy stunner.