Andrew Farah, vehicle chief engineer for the Chevrolet Volt, took the car for a lap around the parking lot in Dodger Stadium. He drove in EV mode and burned rubber without burning fuel. Check out t…Â Â Â
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Electric Motorcycle – Mission Motors, The World’s First Electric Superbike at Infineon Raceway in Northern California
Last year’s inaugural TTXGP electric motorcycle race at the Isle of Man sparked a trend. For 2010 the official electric road-racing docket grows from one exhibition race to 14 planned events, with multiple championships and two rival series
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The original TTXGP returns for 2010 with a new format and the more robust schedule. Headlining the list of changes are two separate championships for the UK and North America, with a season-ending finale in Albacete, Spain pitting the points leaders of each series head-to-head … Details
There are some stunning designs and examples of great engineering among the electric motorcycles we’ve seen over the past few years, everything to indicate the electric motorcycle is just around the corner. Brammo is on sale in Best Buy, the Zero X and Quantya are dueling it out on the dirt and the TTXGP grew quickly, in just one year, into an event filled with more competitors than even the organizers had hoped for. We’re almost there, we’ll soon see them everywhere, just a few loose ends and the promise of electric bikes will be fulfilled, … real soon, as soon as those batteries last longer, … and charge faster, … and cost less, … and don’t weigh as much, … or maybe, just possibly, they’re still quite a ways off.
The engineering expertise available today made short work of … Details