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Resurrecting the name of Belgium's first home-grown motorcycle company, Saroléa racing is gearing up for this year's TT Zero electric motorcycle race at the Isle of Man. And the bike is an absolute beauty.

In a rerun of David versus Goliath, the small highly-innovative Team MotoCzysz has once more triumphed over the Honda-Mugen effort, demonstrating 40 years of lap speed improvements in exactly 48 months.

Italian electric race-bike outfit CRP Racing has announced its first road-going superbike, the Energica.

Motorsport governing body, the FIA, is planning a high profile electric racing championship series beginning in 2013 - FIA Formula E Championship.

TTXGP Founder and CEO, Azhar Hussain, has been honored in the Queen's Birthday 2011 Honours List with an MBE for his services to motorsport.

This is an electric racer with real class and presence, not to mention 160mph performance and superbike-spec Swedish suspension bits.

With electric bikes only just beginning to race against each other, American Chip Yates has upped the ante by announcing he's running a 196-horsepower beast against petrol superbikes starting in January.

Brammo has come out swinging with the Empulse 10.0 - a streetfighter-style electric with a 100-mile range and a 100mph top speed. It will absolutely nail commuter duties, and offer a heck of a lot of fun - and the price is a pleasant surprise.

American team MotoCzysz demonstrated the massive performance leap electric motorcycles have taken over the last 12 months at the second IOM electric race, pushing the average winning speed from 87.434 mph to 96.820 mph.

On May 16th, history was made as the first-ever North American electric superbike race took place at the Infineon Raceway in California.

Roehr Motorcycles is to introduce two electric motorcycles before mid-year, topped by a 96 bhp motorcycle with race level performance, 210 lb/ft of torque, and premium suspension and brake components which it has dubbed the eSuperbike.

Zero Motorcycles will make its road racing debut on home turf with a bike that's expected to be based on the Zero S model.