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Lightning Motorcycles electric bike with Remy motor cracks 200 mph

Green Car Congress

In a 14 August SCTA (Southern California Timing Association)-sanctioned run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, Lightning—the 2010 land speed record holder—achieved 206.079 mph, topping its 2010 speed of 176 mph. This record speed win coincides with the signing of a long-term supply agreement in which Remy International, Inc.

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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.