India looks set to move most of its motorcycle and scooter production and sales to electric with government incentives over...
Anything Under 150cc Power Will Need to be Electric The electric motorcycle revolution is something I talk about a lot....
The only thing Ducati about these Chinese-made Super SOCO CUx electric scooters is the name and logo. Perth-based Vmoto who manufacturers in China has somehow obtained a licence agreement with the Italian manufacturer to make the luxury electric scooters under the Ducati brand. The agreement was signed a couple of...
The Electric Ducati Recently, I reported on the fact that Ducati had teamed up with Vmoto to do an electric...
Triumph Motorcycles and British F1 team Williams have received millions in government funding to produce electric motorcycles over the next...
Let Triumph’s Electrified Future Begin Triumph recently announced a partnership with Williams Advanced Engineering, Integral Powertrain, and the University of Warwick. According to reports, the point of that partnership is to move the company forward on electrification projects. RideApart noted the company’s plan is quite ambitious. The result of the...
The prices of electric motorcycles will eventually come down like the prices of flat-screen TVs did, but right now they...
This Rendering Looks Fantastic Ducati’s CEO has said that his company is looking at developing an electric motorcycle, but at...
An Interesting Moped For the Future I’m a big fan of mopeds—those little pedal-internal-combustion-engined bikes that have more or less disappeared from the modern motorcycle industry. I own a 1989 Tomos Golden Bullet. I love the little underpowered thing. It’s perfect for shooting over to a coffee shop or up...
Round Two With the Lito Sora Motorcycles is an electric motorcycle startup based in Montreal, Canada. The company released the...
In Some Parts of the World, It Makes Sense Ride-hailing companies like Uber are struggling to make a profit in...
Get Ready for More Electric Racing After a horrendous fire destroyed all of the bikes set to race in the MotoE championship, Energica had a pretty big task on its hands. It had to make new Ego Corsa race bikes as quickly as possible to get things back to normal....
A Trials Bike You Can Go Anywhere With Chris Northover has ridden motorcycles since he was a kid. He’ll be...
Whoever thought they would hear the words “Ducati” and “electric scooters” in the same sentence? But now it seems Perth-based...
A Bit Unexpected We’ve reported on the possibility of a Ducati electric motorcycle in the future. Now it seems there will be a Ducati scooter long before there’s a Ducati motorcycle. According to electrek, the company recently signed an agreement with a Chinese scooter company called Vmoto. Vmoto makes electric...
Electric motorcycles may be just around the corner, but we can’t see too many people paying $US32,750 (about $A46,500) for...
The Times Are Changing Yamaha is looking towards the electrified future just like every other motorcycle manufacturer. According to Cycle...
An Urban Motorcycle for the Future Erik Buell was the man behind Buell motorcycles, which you probably remember being connected to Harley-Davidson. That venture went south eventually. Now Buell is back with a new company called Fuell. The name may not be very creative, but the Flow electric motorcycle that...
Innovative engineer Erik Buell is back with the Fuell Flow electric motorcycle that is virtually future proof with a replaceable...
Electric Cars? Really, Harley Harley-Davidson is really, really serious about getting into the electric vehicle thing. I’ve said before that...
Learn to Love Electrics Do you really like the idea of an electric motorcycle? How do you feel about Italy? So, you like them both, huh? Okay, that’s good because Energica will offer the #MyElectric Academy at the Modena Circuit in Italy. The company is offering a course to riders...
Update: Readers pointed out some areas of the electric motorcycle market I failed to mention. I’ve updated the article accordingly. This...
This One Looks Interesting and Cool There seem to be many electric motorcycles out there right now, and the ARC...
Anyone Want to Spend Too Much on an Electric Harley? I don’t think the Harley-Davidson LiveWire is worth its asking price of roughly $30,000 ($37,250 in Canada). However, there are likely some folks out there who do think it’s worth it, or maybe they don’t care about the price and...
Let There Be Torque Honda has an electric dirt bike it’s working on, and now there’s a video of it...
Kawasaki appears to be joining Kymco in proposing a battery that can the owner can swap quickly to recharge their...
Kawasaki Should Call This Ninja Raiden A recent patent popped up that shows a novel idea coming from Kawasaki for an electric Ninja 400. The patent was filed all the way back in 2013, but it just recently got published. While an electric Ninja 400 is cool, what’s most interesting is...
This Could Move Electric Bikes Forward According to a recent press release, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha are all working...
The Right Man for the Job If you didn’t know, Max Biaggi is a MotoGP racer and ambassador for the...
The big four Japanese manufacturers are believed to be working to standardise electric motorcycle batteries and charging infrastructure. Noted electric vehicle website Electrek says Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki hope to standardise the technology to prevent any obstacles to its adoption. No doubt it’s also hoped to avoid the Beta/VHS...
Expensive and Odd-Looking If you want to pretend you’re in your own sci-fi movie riding an electric motorcycle, and you...
An Age-Old Race for a New Bike Electric motorcycles make a lot of sense for the Pikes Peak International Hill...
Evoke Could Put Every Other Electric Bike to Shame Harley-Davidson, Zero Motorcycles, and even Lightning Motorcycles should be shaking in their boots. Evoke Motorcycle has a high powered cruiser called the 6061, and it not only can charge up to 80 percent of its battery capacity in just 15 minutes,...
Need to Have the Right Training and Equipment The Harley-Davidson LiveWire will be making its way to customers and that...
One of the biggest hurdles in the coming revolution of the electric vehicle is finding enough charging stations so motorists...
Electric motorcycles may be poised to become the next big thing, but the much-anticipated Lightning Strike strikes out three times as a big disappointment. There was much anticipation that Californian electric startup Lightning Motorcycles would make an attractive and affordable version of its $US38,888 LS-218 which at 350km/h (218mph) is...
It’s Here In All Its Glory Lightning Motorcycles has teased its new Strike for weeks now, and the company finally...
A New Schedule Adds Races Following the devastating fire in the paddock that housed all the bikes in Jerez, Spain....
It Could Have a Large Selection of Electric Bikes If you thought the future of Harley-Davidson and the motorcycle industry, in general, was all about high-powered electric motorcycles, you were wrong. I see speedy electric motorcycles as part of the HD portfolio for sure, but it will only be one...
Similar But Not the Same Mugen revealed an updated version of its E.Rex electric dirtbike at the Tokyo Motorcycle Show....