{"id":10685,"date":"2009-04-28T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2009-04-28T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:48:34","slug":"motorcycle-electric-road-racing-battery-powered-motorbike-to-compete-in-zero-emissions-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=10685","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Electric Road Racing &#8211; Battery Powered Motorbike to Compete In Zero Emissions Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10686\" title=\"electric\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/electric.bmp\" alt=\"electric\" \/>It has the ability to reach speeds of 102mph, race around a 38 mile mountainous course and is powered by batteries which can be charged from a standard household socket. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kingston University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new, green motorbike. Designed by six final-year engineering students, the bike is set to make history by competing in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first zero-emissions Grand Prix this summer. The Kingston team will join 24 eco-bikes from America, India, Italy, Germany and Austria on the start line at the 2009 Isle of Man TTXGP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Work on the bike began last October, under the guidance of course director for motorsport and motorcycle engineering Paul Brandon. The motorbike, which has gone through many designs&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azom.com\/news.asp?newsID=16730\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has the ability to reach speeds of 102mph, race around a 38 mile mountainous course and is powered by batteries which can be charged from a standard household socket. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kingston University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new, green motorbike. Designed by six final-year engineering students, the bike is set to make history by competing in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10688,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}