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Hello Neo : Yamaha Electric Scooter
Yamaha has introduced an electric scooter to European markets as an extension of the company’s NEO line. Yamaha claim the electric NEO is a “50cc equivalent” scooter and is the first mass produced electric scooter built by the company to be sold in Europe. The “50cc equivalent” moniker simply means that this is an urban…
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Getting Together on Batteries
Remember when charging various portable devices required a tangle of different charge cords and AC adapters? It was inconvenient and inefficient. In an unusually cooperative play, Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha have agreed to design and build their future electric motorcycles with standardized interchangeable battery packs. With a universal design motorcyclists, regardless of brand, could…
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Race Proven Electric
Yamaha, often at the forefront of engine development both traditional and electric, will be providing electric motors to Subaru STI. What is STI? It is the skunkworks at Subaru. The Subarubian version of Mercedes’ AMG, BMW’s M, Mini’s JCW, you get the idea. It is the place things with wheels go to get faster. Yamaha…
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Arcimoto : Three Wheel Electric either Tilt
As we have noted in the past, Tilting Motor Works builds leaning front end kits to transform everything from an Electra Glide to a Gold Wing into a three-wheeled vehicle. The front end system allows the transformed bike to be ridden like a motorcycle with the benefit of a locking upright mode. Arcimoto on the…
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Ford and BMW Work Together on Batteries
BMW and Ford have teamed up to invest in a Colorado-based company called Solid Power. The intent is to secure solid state batteries for future electric vehicles. Both companies apparently believe that less expensive, more energy-dense, solid state batteries are among the keys to the success of future electric vehicles while also improving safety and…
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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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The Cake Recipe
We couldn’t leave this one out. The Cake Ösa is the Swedish Swiss army knife of electric motorcycles. The Swedish company straight-up acknowledges electric motorcycles are best used in urban settings for just about every purpose. The Ösa can be configured for multiple applications including towing trailers, delivering food or carpentry work (dimensional lumber only).…
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On The Verge Of Success
Deposits have become the norm when buying electric motorcycles – or a possible future motorcycle. We noted how Verge Motorcycles of Finland was once asking 2,000 euros deposit on its Verge TS, which has a retail price of 24,990 euros. The amount of the deposit suggests a serious commitment to taking ownership once “small scale”…
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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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BMW CE 04 – Another Swing at Electric
BMW has another go at electric with the new CE 04. “Urban conurbations are its element.” Learning new words is good and the second word in that sentence is an eye opener, courtesy of BMW. The company states that all of its new urban mobility models (ie scooters and perhaps some small motorcycles) will be…