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The Pikes Peak victory was historic as the first time an electric motorcycle beat internal-combustion rivals in a professional road race. The Lightning team's Pikes Peak race was conducted entirely off-grid, and relied on solar panels to charge the LS-218 racer, making it the first vehicle of any type to win a professional road race using solar ...
Lightning Motorcycle then converted a former Yamaha R1 race bike to electric in 2006. The bike featured over 60 horsepower, about 70 pounds-feet of torque and a top speed of 100 mph. [1] In 2008, Lightning developed a lithium battery induction motor ATV to be used for military, border control, law enforcement, and search and rescue.
Initially, at the time ElectraMeccanica was founded in 2015, the concept of a three-wheeled small electric car was intended to take the form of implementing an existing project. Co-founder Jerry Kroll was then considering restoring the former American Myers Motors NmG model, to which he had purchased the rights, to production. [ 1 ]
These funds will subsidize 800,000 new electric motorcycle sales and 200,000 conversions of existing internal combustion motorcycles to electric. [89] Each new electric motorcycle sale will receive a Rp 7 million subsidy. [90]
Zero Motorcycles has had success racing at Pikes Peak. Zero has won the production electric motorcycle class in 2013, 2014, and 2015. [23] [24] In 2014 a Zero FX was the first production electric motorcycle to break the 12 minute mark. [25] In 2012, Brandon Miller set a Bonneville Land Speed Record on a Zero S ZF6 model. [26]
MotoCzysz was founded by late American engineer and professional motorcycle racer Michael Czysz. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In June 2009, MotoCzysz raced in the world's first zero-emissions motorcycle grand prix. The race took place on the Isle of Man TT course.
1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, must have been staring at an empty dock for a while now, because the 168 milly he shelled out for a 400-foot yacht is ...
Energica Motor Company was an Italian manufacturer of electric motorcycles. The Energica project was started in 2010 in Modena , Italy, by CRP Group , an international company involved in computer numerical control machining and additive manufacturing with advanced selective laser sintering materials.