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Energica electric motorcycles catch huge wave of popularity in Q3

Teslarati

Energica Motors, an Italian manufacturer of electric motorcycles, announced its sales success and showed off its complete lineup at the Milan Motorcycle Show. In March of this year, Ideanomics, a fund focused on furthering electric vehicle adoption, purchased the company entirely and delisted it from the Italian stock exchange.

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Guest post: Honda Introduces the EV-Cub; two-wheel-drive electric motorcycle

Green Car Congress

Honda isn’t a car company… it never really has been. When asked to define what kind of company Honda is, company representatives bill the multinational firm as an engineering company. And that’s exactly what the company has been focusing on lately in the world of motorcycles. And Honda is perfectly fine with this.

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

LiveWire, the all-electric motorcycle brand spun out of Harley-Davidson, is shaping itself into a force to be reckoned with in the still-evolving electric motorcycle industry. And I got to experience all of it as the proud new owner of a shiny indigo LiveWire S2 Del Mar Launch Edition electric motorcycle.

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Honda targeting 2/3 of unit sales from PHEVs, HEVs and ZEVs by ~2030; PHEVs the core of electrification

Green Car Congress

At a press event in Tokyo to lay out his future vision and direction for the company, Honda Motor President & CEO Takahiro Hachigo said that the company will strive to make two-thirds of its overall unit sales from plug-in hybrid/hybrid vehicles and zero-emissions vehicles such as fuel cell vehicles and battery EVs by around 2030.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

“Hoosiers are very resistant to change,” said Richard Steiner, president of the Hoosier Electric Vehicle Association. Partly in order to change this situation, Steiner purchased Waverley Electrics , a firm founded in 1896 by Albert Augustus Pope that manufactured the electric Waverley vehicle in Indianapolis from 1898 until 1916. “I

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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

Navigant’s analysis indicates that only buyers in California and Oregon will purchase sufficient numbers of vehicles in order to meet the ZEV requirement in 2018 and 2019. 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

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

“Hoosiers are very resistant to change,” said Richard Steiner, president of the Hoosier Electric Vehicle Association. Partly in order to change this situation, Steiner purchased Waverley Electrics , a firm founded in 1896 by Albert Augustus Pope that manufactured the electric Waverley vehicle in Indianapolis from 1898 until 1916. “I

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