Category: Alternate fuels
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Electric Vehicle Technology Breakthrough and Facing the Facts
The Damn Inconvenience of those pernicious, insidious facts. Two Different Breakthroughs Will Radically Improve Electric Vehicle Acceptance and Penetration in the Automotive Market – Regardless of Our Unwillingness to Change Improvements in electric vehicles and their acceptance has been incremental ever since the first electric vehicle came onto the North American market in 2010. The…
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ICE and Hydrogen Feasibility For Motorcycles
Much has been written about the feasibility of Hydrogen being burned in ICEs in the future. I keep hearing how hydrogen will be the saviour of internal combustion engines. Based on what’s happening in the industry and within the research establishment, it would seem this is a fallacy. Due to Hydrogen’s unique physical properties, that…
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Nobody saw this coming…
Ammonia engine technology. Pardon me, what? Well, surprise, surprise. Toyota has chosen a different path in its quest to create a more sustainable, fossil fuel-free future. Rather than focus on EV technologies, which appear to be making great strides, Toyota (according to Lagrada: https://lagradaonline.com/en/toyota-creates-ammonia-engines/, is researching revolutionary EV replacements in partnership with a Chinese consortium…
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Electric Motorcycles Can Now Compare to ICE Range as well as Refueling or Charge Times in 2024
For as long as electric motorcycles have been on the market, the complaints that one hears are consistently as follows: Well, as of 2024 for some, and likely 2025 for all-electric motorcycle manufacturers, your assumptions would be wrong. Powermag is an industry magazine that tracks the development of electrical batteries, their chemistry, and technological advancements…
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Is Hybrid the Future?
It was only a matter of time. While hybrids are now common in cars and have been for several years, translating the technology to motorcycles, notably Kawasaki’s Ninja 7 Hybrid and the Z7 Hybrid, is a remarkable engineering feat. As stated in (MCN) Motor Cycle News on January 22, 2024, a “strong hybrid” means that…
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Decarbonizing Motorcycling
Decarbonizing motorcycling, really means decarbonizing the electrical system in the United States. In 2023, 61% of power transmission came from fossil fuels. In just seven years, 80% of power transmission in the United States, with 100% of public transportation, will be electric. The forcast is for medium and heavy-duty vehicle sales in the US to…
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Canadian Electric Vehicle Availability Standard
Canadian Law will reflect Canada’s commitment to vehicles that run on alternate sources of energy to fossil fuels.
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The Missing Link, or How We Got Here
Engineers believe there needs to be a ‘bridge’ between internal combustion engines (ICE) and Hydrogen or ICE and electric motorcycle propulsion systems. Kawasaki believes this strongly enough to offer a complete line of hybrid motorcycles. The first of these is the Kawasaki Ninja 7 Hybrid. Each manufacturer has taken a position in relation to future…
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The Feasibility of Hydrogen Motorcycling
Hydrogen and electric motorcycles, are the future of motorcycling. How we’ll get there is the subject of this post.