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Agreement reached to standardize swappable batteries for electric motorcycles

Green Car Congress

The Swappable Battery Consortium for Electric Motorcycles has reached an agreement to standardize swappable batteries and replacement systems, allowing battery sharing and paving the way for increased adoption of electric motorcycles in Japan. Organization (JASO) technical paper TP21003 issued on 19 March.

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Honda and Panasonic to begin experiment on battery sharing using detachable mobile batteries and electric motorcycles in Indonesia

Green Car Congress

and Panasonic Corporation will conduct a research experiment in Indonesia on battery sharing using the Honda Mobile Power Pack (“Mobile Power Pack”) detachable mobile battery with electric mobility products, including electric motorcycles powered by the Mobile Power Pack. Honda Motor Co., Honda Mobile Power Pack.

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Kenya’s Largest Bank To Provide 100% Financing For Riders To Acquire 100,000 Electric Motorcycles!

CleanTechnica EVs

The KCB Group is the largest financial services organization in East Africa in terms of asset size. The Group is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi.

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Airbus APWorks unveils 3D-printed electric motorcycle; 35kg total, 6kg bionic structure frame

Green Car Congress

Dubbed the Light Rider, the motorcycle is made using APWorks’ Scalmalloy material, and weighs only 35 kg (77 lbs). APWorks used an algorithm to develop the Light Rider’s optimized structure to keep weight at a minimum while ensuring the motorcycle’s frame was strong enough to handle the weight loads and stresses of everyday driving scenarios.

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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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FIM and TTXGP replacing e-Power/TTXGP with new electric motorcycle racing series

National Green Transportation

The TTXGP and FIM announced on Tuesday a historic change in electric motorcycle racing with what's effectively a merger agreement. The two organizations will now jointly operate an (as yet unnamed) electric motorcycle racing series that will.

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2011 Speed Week is here, electric motorcycle speed records at Bonneville

National Green Transportation

The last three (or more) years has seen several electric motorcycle teams competing for the title of worlds fastest electric motorcycle. Several organizations run time trial races on salt flats (dry lake beds) in Utah and elsewhere, such as.