Battery Technology
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The typical charging time for an ebike is measured in hours, but Morelle looks to slash that unit to minutes to create the world's fastest charging ebike. The new bike also looks to be as sleek and lightweight as it is convenient to charge.
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You’ve got to have a trick or two up your sleeve if you intend to break into a crowded EV market. And Indian two-wheeler startup Oben Electric has done just that by pricing its first electric motorcycle to perfection and making it available on Amazon.
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Until now, the robot workforce has had to either be plugged in all of the time, or spend some time cabled to the mains to top up its battery pack. UBTech has launched the Walker S2 humanoid, with dual batteries and the ability to hotswap on its own.
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Harley-Davidson’s Homecoming festival saw LiveWire unveil two new concept motorcycles – a street-bike and a trail-bike. What might first come across as regular city mopeds can go as fast as 53 mph (85 km/h), with a range of about 100 miles (160 km).
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Inadequate public charging infrastructure and range anxiety have been the Achilles' heel of EVs. Lucid Motors might have put such problems in the rear-view mirror by breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest journey by an EV on a single charge.
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Maeving is one of the rare EV manufacturers that has remained committed to traditional motorcycle design. The company's new limited-edition café racer, the RM1S Blackout, is its latest testament to that ethos.
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BMW is road-testing solid-state batteries in the i7 electric sedan. The sulfide-based batteries promise higher energy density, improved safety and more versatile, compact packaging in comparison with traditional lithium-ion batteries.
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A couple of years ago, Yamaha launched a new sub-brand aimed at offering ebike riders a battery swap option. Now ENYRING has partnered with Swobbee to build swapping stations in two European cities.
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Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), the largest battery manufacturer in the world, has just announced some fairly significant breakthroughs in battery tech that aren't just theoretical; they're already hitting the market.
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Verge Motorcycles has broken and created a new Guinness World Record by riding its Verge TS Pro electric bike the farthest on a single charge. The record-breaking 193-mile (311-km) journey was accomplished in London on March 22.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to enable rapid EV battery charging at awfully low temperatures – up to five times as fast – without reducing the batteries' energy density.
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California-based startup Inlyte wants to offer a scalable alternative to lithium-ion storage batteries with its sodium-iron tech, and it will soon manufacture cells in the US to showcase its benefits.
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