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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

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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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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. for 2012 Featured stories Feed Greenlings: What is regenerative braking?

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Whats more, the General promises the Volt will be the foundation for a slew of cars to be sold worldwide.

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