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Electrification to Improve the Quality of Life of Disabled Persons

CleanTechnica EVs

Automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles displaced horses and buggies, oxen, and wagons and horses when the internal combustion engine (ICE) arrived over 100 years ago. Electric automobiles made a brief appearance early on, but battery technology was not adequate to compete with ICE vehicles. The electric motor has superior performance to.

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The Most Important Things You Should Do After a Motorcycle Accident

Clean Fleet Report

The Most Important Things You Should Do After a Motorcycle Accident Protect Yourself and Your Property This article may contain affiliate links. If you have recently been involved in a motorcycle accident, it can be an overwhelming and stressful experience. In addition to photographs, collect any other potential evidence available.

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Gogoro battery-swapping electric scooters continue international expansion

Baua Electric

Gogoro’s electric scooters have proven popular with delivery and courier services , whose riders often spend all day riding throughout both urban and rural areas, and thus rely on battery swapping to ‘refuel’ even quicker than a conventional gas station fill-up for combustion engine motorcycles and scooters.

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Ricardo’s low-cost, fuel-efficient automatic transmission concept for motorcycles

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Ricardo has developed and demonstrated an advanced and cost-effective motorcycle Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) concept that offers the comfort and convenience of automatic and semi-automatic operation with better-than-manual fuel efficiency. —Stefano Di Palma, AMT lead engineer for Ricardo Motorcycle.

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Zero Motorcycles, Jiangsu Xinri E-Vehicle score highest in new Pike Research assessment of electric motorcycle and scooter manufacturers

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Pike Pulse Grid for electric motorcycles and scooters. According to a new Pike Pulse report published by Pike Research, the two electric motorcycle and scooter manufacturers who are best positioned to take advantage of upcoming shifts in the market are Zero Motorcycles and Jiangsu Xinri E-Vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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

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And that’s exactly what the company has been focusing on lately in the world of motorcycles. Honda has been making and selling a motorcycle called the Cub for decades. Mostly sold in emerging markets around the world as an urban commuter, the Cub is a very small motorcycle with an equally small engine.

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BMW Motorrad presents BMW iFace; anti-theft face and eye recognition system

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If the calibration is positive, the ignition, steering lock and other locking functions are released and the rider can start the motorcycle. If corresponding data material is found there, the search for the person concerned can be initiated immediately. This three-dimensional image is compared with a data record stored in the system.

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