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Wheel-E Podcast: Honda E-cub moped, RCA e-bikes, cheap electric boats & more

Electrek

This time that includes new electric bikes from the consumer electronics brand RCA, a new electric trike from Lectric eBikes, Honda revealed its E-Cub for the Chinese market, a high power hubless wheel electric motorcycle, low-cost electric boats with a Mercury electric outboard motor and lots more.

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The Cheap Electric Motorcycles America Needs Are Being Sold Under The Radar

CleanTechnica EVs

A few years ago, my dad had a weird motorcycle in his yard. It was half fat-tire mountain bike, and half retro step-thru bicycle, but with a motorcycle engine to power the thing instead of pedals. My brother had traded a busted dirtbike or something for it. It looked like something you’d see in Asia […].

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Harley-Davidson, the legendary and revered American manufacturer of motorcycles, announced that it is establishing LiveWire as a separate electric motorcycle brand on July 8,2021, just in time for the first of nine outdoor International Motorcycle Shows. I’ve always wondered how Harley would market its silent motorcycles.

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Opinion: Automatic Emergency Braking Mandate is Misguided Overreach

The Truth About Cars

The same National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that is finalizing the AEB rule is also currently investigating Honda for unintended activations of AEB in Accord and CR-Vs. And even that one, the Subaru Forester, wasn't perfect when it came to avoiding hitting things -- or at least, motorcycles and large trucks.

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Verge TS electric motorcycle enters production

Teslarati

Verge Motorcycles announced today that they have entered production of their Verge TS electric motorcycle. Electric motorcycles have exploded in popularity in recent years. Even legacy motorcycle manufacturers are starting to take notice, with both Honda and Kawasaki planning to introduce electric models in the coming years.

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Can-Am Spyder First Drive: Embracing The Third Wheel

The Truth About Cars

As a lifelong motorcycle enthusiast, I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve wanted to sneak stories about two-wheeled transportation onto this website. Despite having seen them around for years, they were models I had long assumed would be marginally better than the atrocious three-wheeled motorcycles offered by Harley-Davidson.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Atom Power says its smart circuit breaker will make charging electric cars as cheap and easy as using Wi-Fi. Two obstacles stood in his way. One was affordability.