Category: electric motorcycles
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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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Has The Hydrogen Bubble, Burst?
Shell Pops the Hydrogen Bubble What are the Implications for Hydrogen Motorcycles ? This last week, MIT released a report (September 11, 2023) suggesting that electric vehicles have essentially won the battle between Hydrogen ICE vehicles and EVs. https://globalchange.mit.edu/publication/17750 Their argument is as simple as the economics of both. According to Sergey Paltsev, a senior…
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Risk Aversion and Motorcycling
Are Younger People Today More Risk Averse, and what are the factors that will enhance their purchase and use of motorcycles in the future? Today, seeing a young person riding a motorcycle is almost a surprise. While I’ve been aware for a while that the motorcycling community seems to be aging, the argument was, for…
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Battery Breakthrough by Enevate: 2024
New Silicon Anode Batteries: Long Range, Very Quick Charging Enevate battery just released a report on its new battery technology and its relationship and licensing of the technology to Lightning Motorcycles (February 13, 2024). Lightning Motorcycles has entered production with the LS218 using large 47Ah extreme-fast-charge Si-dominant lithium-ion cells from Enevate. Range anxiety, will in…
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The Changing ‘Rider’
Motorcyclists have always been freedom seekers, looking for adventure. Some could be characterized as rebellious. And today’s riders are likely not much different from previous generations in terms of their enthusiasm. As some manufacturers have discovered to their detriment, what it is that new enthusiasts want in a motorcycle can, and often is, quite different…
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Harley Davidson Financials for 2023
The bleeding at Harley Davidson continues as sales for its products fell another 7% from 2022. Net income was up, but the only reason it was up is because Harley continues to buy back its stock, something it has historically done to make the bottom line appear more palatable. Global sales fell by 11%. Harley…
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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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BMW’s Fuel Cell And Motorcycling: Part 1
This year will truly be a watershed year in both automotive and motorcycle technological breakthroughs. Whether electric, hybrid, or hydrogen, almost everywhere you look there are new patents, new inventive designs, and very soon, new consumer transportation products that just ten years ago would have seemed like a Star Wars episode. I’ll try to remain…
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Policeman: “So you saw five guys beating one guy on an electric motorcycle. Why didn’t you help?” Observer Motorcyclist: ”Oh, I thought five guys was enough.”
I can’t help but notice that those who ride electric motorcycles are treated with derision. The question is why? It’s highly likely that in the near future, ICE or internal combustion engines will be banned by the powers that be. In Canada, a date has been set when the sale of light-duty vehicles must be…