Electric Motorcycles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 46th Tokyo Motor Show is due to open its doors later this month, and the Yamaha Motor Co has six world premieres to show off.

One of the most interesting-looking electric city two-wheelers we've seen recently is the Brekr Model B out of the Netherlands.

An ex-Isle of Man TT Zero bike has set a new land speed record and become the "fastest electric unfaired motorbike in the world" – subject to ratification by the FIM. The record speed, a two-way average over a flying kilometer, was 185.103 mph (297.894 km/h), with a best one-way speed of 194.086 mph (312.351 km/h).

The Fonzarelli NKD is a chunky, urban, electric, dual-sport moped, if such a thing can be said to exist.