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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

Cars That Think

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 The Lightning holds the landspeed record for street-legal production motorcycles). kilometer-per-hour (215.91 mile-per-hour) average run and a 351 kph (218 mph) peak.

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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

More mainstream models will come from Kia, Mahindra, Škoda, and Volkswagen. Throughout 2014, Tesla Motors fortunes will have tongues wagging (and international car buyers salivating) as the brand becomes a global phenomenon. Electric motorcycles breakout.

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