Lightning Motors TTXGP Entry – The EV1 Powered Electric Race Bike
Last year the Lightning Motors Moto-1 hit 166.388 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats during BUB week toping Mission Motors single pass top speed. Spinning away inside the Ray Abrams trellis frame was the 3 phase AC Induction, 104 kW heart of the Saturn EV1 electric car. You know, the one GM killed? Richard Hatfield’s […]
In: Racing, TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, AC Induction, EV1, Infineon, Lightning Motors, Ray A, Ray Abrams, Richard Hatfield, Saturn EV1, TTXGP, who killed the electric car
Electric Race Bikes EGP TTXGP Entry
The folks at Electric Race Bikes chose the simple and lightweight approach to an electric race bike. They converted some type of 125cc-two-stroke-looking rolling chassis to electric using two Agni 95R motors and 7.6 kWh of LiFePO4 batteries. If you know the frame let me know. They didn’t tell me and no one on twitter […]
In: Racing, TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, Electric Race Bikes, Epic Engineering, Gerry Piazza, Mark Kully, Matt Dieckmann, Mike Hannas, Risse Racing, Sevcon, TTXGP, TTXGP North America Championship
Volt Motorcycles Brings More Guru Knowledge To TTXGP Grid
Volt Motorcycles is a group effort by Loren Crotty and Eland Eggers with a major sponsorship from ThunderStruck Motors. Loren and Eland have been employees of ThunderStruck but they have been working on a electric street bike with ICE power output since 2008. Information on the Volt electric race bike has been hard to track […]
In: Racing, TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, AC Induction motor, Brian Hall, Eland Eggers, guru, Infineon, Loren Crotty, R1, ThunderStruck Motors, TTXGP, Volt Motorcycles, Volt Motors
K Squared Racing’s Zero S TTXGP Bike
Zero Motorcycle’s Electrical Engineer Kenyon Kluge was out at Thunder Hill Park Raceway testing his K Squared Racing Zero S last week. Kenyon decided to get in the TTXGP mix late and did a great job modifying the Zero S for race duty in a short amount of time. The K Squared S retains the […]
In: TTXGP, Zero Motorcycles · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, AfterShocks Suspension, electric race bike, K Squared Racing, Kenyon Kluge, TTXGP, Zero, Zero S race bike
Exclusive Specs On The SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing TTXGP Bike
With one week left until the electric race bikes take to Infineon to kick off the much anticipated 2010 TTXGP series, I got my hands on exclusive detailed spec of the SWIGZ Pro Racing electric superbike. What you see here is not the latest LiFePO4 delivery bike, though the beautify crafted battery racks loaded with 360 life-poe-fours […]
In: TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, cells, Chip Yates, controller, Electric Motorcycle Racing, KERS, LiFePO4, MoTeC, motor, Racing, specifications, specs, SWIGZ, SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing, TTXGP
SWIGZ Brings Traction Control To The Next Level For TTXGP
In the latest issue of Road Racing World Magazine, Chip Yates reveals more details about the SWIGZ Pro Racing electric superbike Chip will be running in the TTXGP North American series. In the team’s quest for 600cc gas bike lap times, Chip explains some very advanced power management and power delivery logic that will be […]
In: technology, TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, ACL, Advanced Central Logger, BMS, Chip Yates, KERS, MoTeC, power delivery, SWIGZ, SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing, technology, William Yates
2010 TTXGP North America Entry List Published
Yesterday Susan Carpenter announced the entry list for TTXGP North America. I am working on a more details breakdown of the entry list. For now have a look at the TTXGP North America Entry list if you have not already. Some of the teams are covered on previous PlugBike.com articles so please look around if […]
In: Racing, TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010, 2010 TTXGP Teams, Electric Motorcycle Racing, TTXGP, TTXGP North America entry list, TTXGP Teams
Square Wave Racing Wants To Go Wild On TTXGP
Square Wave Racing is a garage based electric race team from Columbus, Ohio who saw the potential in electric motorcycle racing after the 2009 TTXGP. John Wild is heading up the project as the rider, crew chief and fabricator for the SWR1 electric motorcycle while his partner Sean Ewing is the electrical engineer behind the […]
In: Racing, TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, 3 phase, John Wild, Jordan Rhyne, LiFePO4, REP, repowersports, Rhyne Powersports, Sean Ewing, Square Wave Racing, SWR1, transmission, TTXGP
Want To Sponsor An Electric Motorcycle Race Team?
Hopefully you all will be attending the first race of the 2010 TTXGP season at Infineon next month. If you live on the North American continent a few hundred bucks should pay for a plane ticket or gas to get there and watch as electric racing continues to gain momentum. (Here is a $5 discount […]
In: Racing · Tagged with: 2010, 2010 TTXGP Teams, Anton Bertraux, Carolyn Coquillette, donate, donations, electric motorcycle race teams, Jennifer Bromme, sponsorship, TTXGP Infineon, Werkstatt Motorcycles, Werkstatt racing
TTXGP Entry Spy Shot | Markel IceWrap Superlattice Bike
The deadline for entry to the 2010 TTXGP series has not past and only Mr. Hussain knows who is on the list but details are leaking ahead of the official lineup announcement. I got a hold of a spy shot of an electric race bike with American sponsors taken inside a barn. Inside sources tell […]
In: TTXGP · Tagged with: 2010 TTXGP Teams, IceWrap, Markel Powersports Insurance, spy shot, Superlattice Inc, TTXGP