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Chip Yates Will Unveil The SWIGZ.com Electric Superbike At The Battery Show

After some tough breaks in 2010, the SWIGZ.com Pro Racing team will unveil their Electric Superbike at The Battery Show in San Jose in October. Chip Yates and team will have prime real estate at the show with a centrally located 400 square foot booth. On display will be their state of the art battery [...]

135 mph Roehr eSuperBike Ready To Order

The twin AC induction motor, 135 mph, 100 mile range ROEHR Motorcycles eSuperBike is ready to order, making it the fastest production electric money can buy. With $2000 down you can have one in your driveway in six weeks. The eSuperBike uses 7.7 kWh of LiFePO4 batteries for an electric drive system running at 96 Volts. [...]

FIM E-Power Grid For Laguna Seca Announced To Riders

Laguna Seca FIM e-Power Grid UPDATE: FIM posted an updated list here. SWIGZ.com Pro Racing will not attend e-Power at Laguna Seca. FIM will hold its first e-Power race in the United States at Laguna Seca in Monterey, California next week. Seca is not only one of the best known tracks in the US, it [...]

Introducing A Trio of Brammo Empulse Sportbike Prototypes

Today Brammo is unveiling a prototype of the 2011 Brammo Empulse series of electric sportbikes. The Empulse 6.0, 8.0 and 10.0 are Brammo’s answer to many of the complaints motorcycle riders have about the current production electric motorcycles, a full embrace of the market for race inspired electric sportbikes and a continuation of their consumer [...]

US Highland Executives Killed In Plane Crash

Today, US Highland founder Mats Malmberg, Director of Operations Damian Roddich and COO Chase Bales died in a plane crash at Tulsa International Airport. Our sincerest condolences go out to US Highland and the families of these men. The three of them had been a part of launching one of the most aggressive US powersports companies in history, including [...]

Posted on July 11, 2010 at 11:34 pm by John Adamo · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Roehr eSuperBike Sneak Peak Pictures

Walter Roehrich posted pictures of the Roehr eSuperbike on Elmoto.net yesterday. The bike clearly shows 2 AC Induction motors and some nicely packaged batteries and electronics. Walter explained that he would have liked to have the bike ready for the Infineon TTXGP opener this weekend but some delays with the body work and other issues [...]

Electric Moto Taps All Wheel Drive Expert Steve Christini

Last we heard from Electric Moto pictures had surfaced of an ATK/Cannondale based prototype electric motorcycle. Now it appears Electric Moto is bringing Steve Christini to assist in making Electric Moto a serious competitor in the Electric Motorcycle industry. Steve has extensive industry knowledge including a very unique two wheel drive technology that has been [...]

Zero MX Rider Injured At Motocross Wohlen

Last weekend on April 24 the first race of a Swiss e-Moto MX series was held at Motocross Wohlen in Wohlen, Switzerland. During the first lap of the first heat Tommy Heimburg of ERIDE Motorcycles suffered a serious crash in which his Zero MX frame failed near the head tube. Sources say the crash was a [...]

KTM FREERIDE Electrics Break Cover *New Pictures*

UPDATE: The KTM FREERIDE ZEM website is now live. Yesterday a German magazine Das Motorrad leaked photos of the much anticipated KTM FREERIDE electric motorcycles. The electric supermoto and MX bikes were supposed to be unveiled tomorrow, March 24th in Japan. Now 1000ps.at has more pics and an interview with KTM. The Austrian Institute of [...]

ePower Race At Leguna Seca? Another In Germany? And Some Epo-Bike News

Like, OMG! TTXGP’s electric race series rival FIM e-Power might have an electric race at MotoGP round at Leguna Seca! A track very close to 5 major electric motorcycle manufacturers! I wonder what TTXGP thinks about that?!? Yes, the drama continues. It’s all rumor at this point but it comes from so guys who are [...]

Posted on March 23, 2010 at 10:03 am by John Adamo · Permalink · 4 Comments
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