For years, there was no point to making a list of the fastest road motorcycles. Bike makers agreed to limit speeds at 186 mph in order to escape the wrath of safety regulators from Japan to both sides of the Atlantic. As a result, only a few bikes kept pushing the limits while others claiming to stay at the prescribed mark could only offer minor upgrades or track-only extras to increase a bike’s power quotient.
In recent years, superbike makers have began pushing motorcycles to top speeds that leave those old limits behind. The titans that publicly respected speed barriers continued improving the technology … More
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Here at MD, we have had spirited debate about electric motorcycles. Some of the issues include the relatively short range offered by these vehicles and their high initial purchase price. Maybe you have been taking for granted that electric vehicles (both cars and motorcycles) are more climate-friendly than their ICE competitors.
To answer the last question, you must of course consider the entire carbon footprint, including but not limited to the source of the electricity used for the vehicle. Many states use dirty fuels such as coal and petroleum to generate a large percentage of the electricity available to electric vehicle owners … More
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The CEO of Fiat Chrysler said he hopes that people don’t buy his company’s electric car, the Fiat 500e, which he is forced to sell at a loss because of state and federal mandates.
“I hope you don’t buy it because every time I sell one it costs me $14,000,” Sergio Marchionne told the audience at the Brookings Institute during a discussion of the auto bailout.
As head of Fiat in 2009, Marchionne stepped in to help Chrysler through the auto-bailout and out of bankruptcy … More
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Apparently, even at age 82, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits never gets tired of breaking records. The drag racing icon added another record to a long list of achievements April 30 when his newest machine, Swamp Rat 37, set the new quarter-mile record for an electric vehicle with a pass of 7.258 seconds at 184.01 mph, eclipsing the old records 7.95 and 156.00 mph.
Unlike the nitro-burning engines that powered so many of Garlits’ earlier Swamp Rats, Swamp Rat 37 gets its juice from … More
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