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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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KTM Freeride Prototypes To Be Unveiled In Tokyo – UPDATED

KTM announced it will unveil two zero emissions prototype motorcycles at the 2010 Tokyo Motorcycle Show Tokyo Motor Show in 10 days. In 2009 we saw an electric motorcross prototype that was said to be planned for 2010 but production was pushed. Looking at the picture it seems there will be a model set up for […]

Vectrix To Relaunch At 2010 International Powersports Dealer Expo

Vectrix has emerged from backruptcy after being purchased by GP Batteries. Their official relaunch will take place at the International Powersports Dealer Expo on February 12 – 15 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The press release issued by Vectrix USA states Vectrix has already started shipping parts and products and is planning the relaunch to let customers […]

Posted on February 8, 2010 at 2:30 pm by John Adamo · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Plugbike And Harry Mallin Talk Electric Motorcycles On EVcast

As many of you probably know, EVcast is the podcast started by Bo Bennett and Ryan Levesque that covers the latest EV industry news. Over time it has grown to have multiple hosts and some amazing guests which brings the show 1000 unique downloads and 2500 listeners. I was pretty nervous but jumped at the […]

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 4:28 pm by John Adamo · Permalink · Comments Closed
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DERBI GPR EV Geared Up To Shock The Competition

Last month a video of the DERBI GPR EV showed up on YouTube. It was posted by someone who appeared to be working with Sevcon and it was hard to tell if Derbi was behind the bike. I recently found the blog of Derbi Project Manager Carles Carrera. And guess what, he has a detailed picture […]

Plug Bike And BrammoFan On EV Cast 11/23

If you follow me on twitter you know 50% of my RT’s (retweets) are of Harry Mallin (aka BrammoFan, aka eMotoRules). He wrote yesterday’s post about Azhar getting mugged. He also loves to pick on me about my poor editing skills, typos and misspellings here on Plug Bike. It is all much appreciated. :D Like […]