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Electric Variations – BMW Electric Concepts
It is frequently proven how nearly impossible it is to purposely design a product that will excite Gen Y and the Millennials. They are a temperamental crowd with an independent streak and the last thing they want is to be instructed by someone older than they are about what is cool. Found people have had…
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What Success Should Have Looked Like
When the Sondors Metacycle appeared, we had a couple of thoughts. The first was that it looked great. Electric motorcycles design is all over the map – from emulating traditional motorcycles to looking like simple conveyances with no thought to style to those new offerings that throw all design parameters – sometimes unwisely – to the…
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Yamaha High HP Electric Motor
Yamaha has started taking orders from outside companies for a 200 kw high-density electric motor suitable for use in cars and, as the company states, other types of vehicles. That may of course include motorcycles. If you prefer to have your horsepower figures translated to imperial measurement, a 200 kw engine is worth a touch…
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Kawasaki Thinks Electric Motorcycle – Maybe
Kawasaki has long had the idea of entering the electric motorcycle market. At EICMA the company’s motorcycle division president unveiled a new prototype machine that may move that quest a little closer to reality. The theoretical bike looked traditional in its sport bike livery which suggests it will likely first appear as a faired e-Ninja…