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Feature: Should You Drive a Car or a Motorcycle?

Clean Fleet Report

If you are wondering for yourself whether you should drive a car or ride a motorcycle, there are many things that you will want to bear in mind along the way. You can go for fuel economy or even zero emissions. One of the most important things for most of us on the roads is fuel economy. first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Spiro Secures $63 Million Financing Solution To Expand Its Fleet Of Electric Motorcycles, Batteries, & Swap Stations

CleanTechnica EVs

Spiro, a leading electric motorbike manufacturer and clean energy provider in Africa, has so far deployed over 9200 electric motorbikes across Benin, Togo, and Rwanda.

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Making driving less energy-intensive than flying

Green Car Congress

To make driving less energy intensive than flying, the fuel economy of the entire US fleet of light-duty vehicles would have to improve from the current 21.5 Motorcycles were the second most efficient (2,675 BTU/peson mile), followed closely by flying (2,691 BTU/person mile). l/100 km) to at least 33.8 persons to at least 2.3

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REL teams with NY-Poly to create lightweight, ultra-durable automotive brake rotor; up to 60% lighter, 3x the life

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REL Matrix MMC brake rotor assembly for motorcycles. Due to expense, current composite brakes have been reserved for motorcycles, race cars and high-performance sports cars (REL provides MMC Matrix Brakes rotors to the motorcycle industry). Click to enlarge. Michigan-based REL, Inc. , miles per gallon by 2025.

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

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Electric motorcycles breakout. Sales of e-motorcycles have been increasing, but the market remains a tiny fraction of the e-bicycle and e-scooter market (5.2 million e-bicycles and e-scooters compared to about 30,000 e-motorcycles were estimated to have been sold in 2013 outside of China), Navigant says. million tons.

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ExxonMobil predicts peak in light-duty vehicle liquid fuels ~2030, but ongoing role for oil in the mix

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As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83 Significant increases in future fuel economy across all transportation modes will lead to a further decoupling of transportation services and energy demand, the report finds.

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8 ZEV states announce US ZEV sales top 260,000 units

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A ZEV Showcase accompanying the announcement included the new Toyota Fuel Cell Concept car (which will be formally revealed next month at the LA Auto Show), as well as the Harley-Davidson electric “Livewire” motorcycle and some of the newest commercially available models, including the Tesla Model D and the Mercedes B class EV.

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