{"id":6570,"date":"2009-03-30T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:13:06","slug":"motorcycle-electric-torture-tests-say-battery-powers-hardly-nerdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6570","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Electric &#8211; Torture tests say battery power&#8217;s hardly nerdy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6571\" title=\"ecycle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/ecycle-150x86.jpg\" alt=\"ecycle\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ecycle-150x86.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ecycle.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill Dub\u00c3\u00a9 gets giddy when he talks about batteries and speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After all, his 500-horsepower Killacycle electric motorcycle goes from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under a second. He claims it is the fastest electric vehicle on the planet. In October, the Killacycle traveled a quarter mile in 7.89 seconds, topping out at 174 mph, a record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dub\u00c3\u00a9, 56, an engineer and Rhode Island native whose day job is designing air chemistry instruments at the University of Colorado, is &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2009\/03\/30\/torture_tests_say_battery_powers_hardly_nerdy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/placeholder-3691232?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Dub\u00c3\u00a9 gets giddy when he talks about batteries and speed. After all, his 500-horsepower Killacycle electric motorcycle goes from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under a second. He claims it is the fastest electric vehicle on the planet. In October, the Killacycle traveled a quarter mile in 7.89 seconds, topping out at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,69,8,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-electric-vehicles","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","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=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}