Mission Begins Search For New CEO, Sets New Launch Date And Plans A New Model
The speed at which teams prepared electric race motorcycles for the 2009 TTXGP brought great hope that electric motorcycles could be taken from design to showroom with lightning speed. It turns out it’s not quite that easy. The intricacies of making an electric motorcycle refined, reliable and legal takes a lot longer than the 6 months some […]
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Neiman Marcus Edition Mission One
Have a sugar mama who can’t seem to spend enough money on you and loves to tell people where she bought stuff? Good, Mission Motors has you covered with the Neiman Marcus edition Mission One. Just pick up the years 2009 Christmas Book’s Fantasy Gift List, ear mark the page 54, (the one with the […]
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Mission Proves Fastest Production Electric Motorcycle Claims
Last week I wrote about a video I found showing the Mission one speed runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats during Bub week. Now Mission has made it official with a press release and a nice short video documenting the run. As suspected, the speed run by Mission Motors Product Manager and Test Rider Jeremy […]
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Mission Motors At Bonneville
It appears Mission Motors was in Utah doing speed runs at the Bonneville Salt flats in August. Two videos of the Mission One at Bonneville in it’s TTXGP race fairing wearing the number 1117 were posted on YouTube with the text “electric motorcycle 160 mph”. A 160 mph recorded speed would be nice to back […]
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Mission One TTXGP Bike In Race Plastic
Here is a picture of the Mission Motors, Mission One TTXGP bike with it’s race bodywork. It from a video published by ABC. 50 Mission One bikes will be produced next year for just under $69,000 USD. Mission Motors CEO Forest North explains that putting the bike in the luxury category will justify the cutting […]
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Inside The Mission Motors TTXGP Bike
Video of the Mission One recently hit YouTube showing the bike being torn down and packed up for the trip to IOM for TTXGP. Lots of interesting details were displayed including shots of the trellis frame, rear swing arm and what looks to be a horn. Or is it a speaker? There has been talk […]
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