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Porsche releases a ‘sporty’ electric motorbike, but there’s a catch

Electrek

Electric motorcycles and scooters crush their combustion engine-powered cousins in performance. And it seems that automotive company Porsche has gotten the message loud and clear based on the company’s partnership with Yadea to release the VF F200 electric motorbike. When it comes to motorbikes, there’s simply no comparison.

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Porsche Electric Car, Infiniti Q30, Electric Motorcycle Tour: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we have a report that Porsche will unveil an electric concept car at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, the first official photo of the Infiniti Q30 compact, and details of a three-country electric-motorcycle tour. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Zero Motorcycle Engineer’s Bicycle Is Quicker Than Porsche GT3 RS

Green Car Reports

When we visited Zero Motorcycles’ headquarters in Scotts Valley, California to test-ride its 2011 2001 model year electric motorcycles, we got to meet some of the hardworking engineers responsible for ensuring the company remained at the forefront of the electric motorcycle world.

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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

Cars That Think

Lightning Motorcycles is already known for record-setting speeds. In 2011, the company’s LS-218 SuperBike set a landspeed record for production electric motorcycles at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, with a 347.55 Lightning Motorcycles “Costs are becoming competitive, so the last big issues are range and charge time,” Hatfield says.

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Hackenberg resigns from Audi Board of Management

Green Car Congress

Amongst other positions there, he was the head of research into vehicle dynamics, developed lectures in motorcycle technology and gained a doctorate in 1985 on the stability properties of the “rider-motorcycle-road” system. In 2010, he became head of the corporate quality department at Porsche.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

Plug-in models that will be fighting for market share include the BMW i8 and i3, the Audi e-tron, the Cadillac ELR, the Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive, and the Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid. Electric motorcycles breakout. Nonetheless, 2014 may be a breakout year for e-motorcycles.

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Electric Conversion Expert eDub Services Creates The Electric Vespa T5

CleanTechnica EVs

Back in April, Kit Lacey of eDub services took us on a little tour of his oldtimer EV conversions business, and on this tour among the VW Golf Mk2 and Porsche 911 projects we got a sneak peak of a little gem: the electric Vespa T5. And now it is officially ready for order under […].