Australian Electric Motor Co (AEMC) will become the first all-electric motorcycle dealership in the country when it opens its doors...
European motorcycle clothing manufacturer has resized a range of apparel in collaboration with the world’s biggest electric motorcycle company, Zero...
It’s Only Some Models Zero Motorcycles has issued a recall of several 2021 models. The reason is a DC converter that could have an insufficient power output margin. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is recalling motorcycles that have been affected. The converter issue could be bad. If it...
Custom Electric Bikes are Going to be Cool When I think custom motorcycles, I think of beautiful exhausts and the...
A 10-Year Partnership California’s Zero Motorcycles has signed a 10-year partnership deal with Polaris. This partnership is part of Polaris’...
Miriam Orlandi joins a rare group of folks who have taken electric motorcycles far further than many people thought possible. She managed to cover 4,350 miles on a 21-day journey. She rode from Brescia, Italy, to Nordkapp, Norway. That means she averaged about 200 miles each day. While a couple...
The biggest electric motorcycle company, Zero of California, will finally plug into the sportsbike market with the launch of the...
American fun bike manufacturer Cleveland CycleWerks is the latest to join in the electric motorcycle trend that will define Whirring Twenties decade. For...
There is no doubt that electric vehicles are fast with 100% of torque available from go, but this drag race between a Tesla Model 3 Performance and Zero SR/F is all a bit ho-hummm. Pointless drag race Apart from the lack of earth-shattering noise usually associated with a drag race,...
If range anxiety is the biggest hurdle for electric motorcycles, Italian company Energica, who supplies the bikes for MotoE, may...
The prices of electric motorcycles will eventually come down like the prices of flat-screen TVs did, but right now they...
Electric motorcycles are coming on a wave of hype about range of more than 300km, but are the claims a hoax? Traditional petrol-powered motorcycles are quoted in terms of miles per gallon or litre per 100km. It provides a reliable and realistic guide to the range from a bike’s tank....
Zero Motorcycles has pulled the rug out from underneath the coming Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric sports bike with its new Zero SR/F...
A San Francisco police officer riding an electric Zero Motorcycle recently pulled over a driver in an electric Tesla Model...
Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali rides a Hypermotard converted to electric power with a Zero FX powertrain and recently said the company is about to join the electric bike race. At a recent student event in Spain he told the crowd: “The future is electric, we’re not far from starting series...
The big electric motorcycle battle is looming this year between Harley-Davidson with its expensive LiveWire and Zero Motorcycles who are...
Range is the big barrier for electric motorcycles, but a German rider has been able to shatter that barrier by...
Zero Motorcycles continues to improve the range of its electric bikes, now claiming a maximum of 360km, up 40km from the previous models. However, Aussies can no longer buy the bikes after Zero Motorcycles pulled the plug on imports to Australia and Asia in June, citing unfavourable exchange rates and taxes....
Since batteries and electric motors can take just about any shape, designers are free to create all sorts of strange...
The biggest electric motorcycle company, Zero of California, has pulled out of Australia and Asia, citing unfavourable exchange rates and...
Zero Motorcycles has announced their 2017 models will have increased range up to 200 miles (320km), seemingly kicking down one of the barriers for buyers. However, the extended range only comes with the purchase of an optional $4790 ($US2700) Power Tank. Interestingly, only one power tank has been sold in Australia over the past...
Electric bikes have received a jolt from Zero Motorcycles with the addition of two new models and an optional Super...
The infant electric motorcycle market has been dominated by naked, sports and off-road machines and even Harley-Davidson and Victory Motorcycles have...
A solo rider has set a Guinness world record for the longest electric motorcycle ride at 12,644km (7856 miles) – and he’s still going! Magazine journalist Thomas Tomczyk set off from Philadelphia in March on his “Electric Powered Odyssey” and last week surpassed the previous record of 11,000km (6835 miles)...
Japanese designer Kota Nezu has created a low-riding electric motorcycle that challenges some of the conventions of new-era zero-emission bikes....
Research and development is the most important – and expensive – ingredient for any electric motorcycle company to grow. And...
The full range of 2015 Zero Motorcycles electric bikes is heading for Australia. Zero Motorcycles Asia Pacific sales director Phillip Wilkinson says they will have four dealers in three states with bikes on the showroom floor by the end of May, 2015. The American electric motorcycle company has been without...
Electric bikes are moving ever closer to public acceptance with the latest step being this customised Zero electric motorcycle. Once customisers realise...
Austrian motorcycle travel company, Edelweiss Bike Travel, is the first we have heard of that offers tours on electric bikes....
The world’s fastest electric bike can be yours for a $10,000 deposit. Lightning Motorcycles is taking deposits now on their 150kW (200hp) Lightning LS-218 street-legal sportsbike. Lightning Motorcycle marketing manager Jojo Chang says the total price is $US38,888 (about $41,500) plus friehgt and various import duties and on-road costs. “We...
Electric motorcycles will drive us into the future, there is little doubt about that. And after riding the new...
After a 90km highway ride home from the Gold Coast yesterday, I put the Zero DS electric motorcycle on charge...
Despite some electric motorbikes being very fast, powerful and light, all are suitable for new riders under the Australian Learner-Approved Motorcycle Scheme … for the moment. It seems the new wave of electric motorbikes might have slipped in under the radar of LAMS which has a 660cc engine cap and...
Electric motorcycles have just taken a step closer to reality in Australia with a new importer for Californian Zero electric...