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Rwanda Electric Motors Will Celebrate 50 Million Kilometers Driven By Its Electric Motorcycle Fleet

CleanTechnica EVs

Africa hosts an estimated 27 million motorbikes (motos), out of which 80% is estimated to be used for commercial taxi service. All these motos have the potential to soon be riding on electricity! The motorcycle sector has been getting attention when it comes to electrification due to the large addressable market.

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Royal Enfield to set up a dedicated commercial team for EVs | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Eicher Motors-owned premium motorcycle maker Royal Enfield, gearing up for its electric vehicle debut, is building a dedicated commercial team to drive its electric vehicle business under a separate vertical. “We Last year, we have made long strides in the EV journey.

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Honda to step up its game with new electric motorcycles and EVs

Teslarati

Honda appears ready to go full electric and dive into the increasing competition in the EV industry. At the same time, Honda plans to increase its annual sales of electric motorcycles to 3.5 million electric motorcycles annually, approximately 15% of Honda’s total unit sales. million units by 2025.

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Lightning Motorcycles electric bike with Remy motor cracks 200 mph

Green Car Congress

Using a Remy propulsion electric motor, Lightning Motorcycles, LLC. blasted through the land speed record for production electric bikes by 30 mph to be crowned the first electric bike to exceed 200 mph. Lightning Motorcycles is a California-based motorcycle engineering firm using competition to spur innovation.

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DARPA awards Phase 2 SBIR contract for hybrid-electric motorcycle prototype

Green Car Congress

SilentHawk hybrid-electric motorcycle. Logos Technologies recently received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to continue development of the SilentHawk military motorcycle in partnership with California’s Alta Motors (formerly BRD).

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Duryea Technologies develops electric supercharger

Green Car Congress

Duryea Technologies (founded in 1996 under the name “eCycle” with the objective of commercializing hybrid and electric motorcycles) has developed an electric supercharger for use in the consumer and commercial vehicle markets.

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CV conversion from ICE to EV is pivot of Kalyani Group’s 4-pronged green growth strategy – ET Auto

Baua Electric

They plan to ramp up the Group’s three business verticals – electric motorcycles (Tork Motors), power electronics, and ICE to EV conversion of commercial vehicles, and to kick off a new traction drives business vertical. Tork Motors is the only entity under Kalyani Powertrain which also plays as an OEM.