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More Doors Opening For Electric

The first doors to open for electric drive powersports were a long time coming. Activists in touch with the environment have been pushing for ways to reduce carbon emissions for decades. In the late 90’s, frustrations mounted as the EV1 came and went. Engineers and tinkerers have been building and racing electrics for years.
In 2008 [...]

Electric Cruisers Get No Love, Not Even On eBay

The number of companies competing for the electric chopper and cruisers market does not seem anywhere near as large as the number of companies wanting you to buy their scooters, dirtbikes and sportbikes. OCC built the Siemens Electric chopper (“the Smart Chopper”) which you can’t get unless you are a popular charity. Only two companies [...]

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 4:41 pm by skadamo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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MotoCzysz Teams With Bajaj On “Dream” Project

MotoCzysz has been said to be in talks with a major manufacturer on a hybrid electric motorcycle. It turns out it is India based Bajaj Auto and they are working on a “clean sheet design” of a “Next Generation Automobile”.
MotoCzysz and Bajaj both have a lot of varied experience in the motorcycle industry. Bajaj in [...]

Posted on October 2, 2009 at 4:02 pm by skadamo · Permalink · One Comment
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Electric Motorcycles And Powersports On Twitter

I’ll tell you what;  I have a lot of admiration for full and part time bloggers. It is not easy to crank out one post a day much less 2, 3 or 4. AutoBlogGreen, David Herron, Environmoto, Brammo Fan, Asphalt and Rubber and others are all rock’n it in the 2 wheeled ev world with great posts. [...]

Posted on July 17, 2009 at 11:36 am by skadamo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Who’s Idea Was The iPhone Dashboard?

MotoCzysz captured the attention of motorcycle and gadget geeks a few weeks ago when they displayed pictures of their E1pc Digital Superbike sporting an iPhone dashboard. Who could help linking to something so cool and practical and showing all your friends? The picture received a lot of attention.
I finally sat down this morning to watch [...]

Posted on June 26, 2009 at 8:16 am by skadamo · Permalink · One Comment
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