Electric Motorcycles
Electric motorcycles are on the rise. Performance models can offer unheard-of torque and acceleration, while commuter specials open the door to emissions-free, low-maintenance transport with fuel costs so low they're almost negligible.
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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.
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Since being acquired by China's Ninebot, Segway has moved far beyond its self-balancing electric personal transporter roots. And now Segway-Ninebot has unveiled the eMoped and eScooter, together with a motorcycle concept called the Apex.
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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.
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Spanish carmaker SEAT is the latest automaker to carve out an urban mobility division, to develop cheap, clean getabouts that break the 4-wheeled mold – and its pair of production-ready electric scooters look practical, stylish and well thought out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Melbourne-based startup Savic Motorcycles has hit the Australian Motorcycle Festival with a very sweet-looking production prototype of its upcoming electric cafe racer, a significant update to the first prototype we saw this time last year.
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Where Cake's first e-motorcycle was an off-roader, which was then modified for the streets, the Swedish bike maker's latest offering can serve as a mobile workbench, a rideable shopping cart, or even a live music platform on wheels.
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These days Segway-Ninebot is about far more than oddball personal mobility machines. Driving the point home at SEMA 2019, the company has turned up with its first electric dirt bikes, offering thrill seekers a couple of new ways to venture off-road.
