Eric Bostrom at Laguna Seca It appears the eRoadRacing World Cup crew quietly closed out the 2013 season without holding a World Final race. A press release has popped up on motorcycle-usa.com and roadracingworld.com saying that Ho Chi Fung (Zongshen) and Eric Bostrom (Brammo) are the winners of the 2013…
Terry Hershner was doing pretty good, made it to Austin at a reasonable time today. But, then, Texas took its toll on his trip, and I suppose beating the record is now out of the question. On Facebook, Terry explained that they’d been at the Whole Foods charging and showing…
The other day we learned of a new electric motorcycle racing series that will be run under the AHRMA umbrella. There’s actually a fair bit of history of AHRMA hosting electric motorcycle racing, and I thought it might be worth recounting that history. First, AHRMA is the American Historic Racing…
This morning, Terry Hershner appears to still be stuck in West Texas. When I went to bed last night he’d made it past El Paso, and was on the highway and looked like he’d make it to San Antonio or farther by morning. This morning we see the report below,…
It’s 9pm PST, 1 1/2 days into Terry Hershner’s trip in which he’s attempting to set a record for cross country electric motorcycle travel. The Facebook post embedded below was posted 5 hrs ago, from El Paso, his last status update a few minutes ago shows him now on the…
Overnight Terry Hershner and Bun Bun ran into a couple delays – an accident on I-10 that blocked the road for a few hours, and then strong headwinds that increased energy usage. Even with that improved aerodynamic fairing, riding directly into a headwind still takes up a lot of energy. …
Terry Hershner’s modified Zero S, in Craig Vetter’s shop Terry Hershner has taken a 2012 Zero S – the same one which Jeremiah Johnson rode in the 2012 TTXGP World Final at Daytona Beach (see the video at the end of an article I wrote on him) – and modified…
Brammo, whom we know mostly for ultra-fast electric motorcycle prototypes, and reasonably fast electric street bikes, is also looking to build an electric sports car for plus-sized people. Ahem, like Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher. If Tesla Motors’ product plans seem eerily like the personal needs of CEO Elon Musk (first…
Arthur Kowitz just posted an announcement in the Electric Racing group on Facebook (which I manage) titled – “Announcing a New eMotoRoadRacing Series in the USA!“. The announcement is basically that AHRMA will host an electric motorcycle racing series starting in 2014. For the first year it’s an exhibition series,…
The 2014 Zero SR Zero’s first race-ready electric motorcycleIn the Laguna Seca corkscrew Zero Motorcycles has ditched their dirt bike roots, and added a race ready version of the Zero S. While this is exciting for electric motorcycle racing fans, it means electric dirt bike fans might be disappointed. Or…
Two Formula One drivers in a phys.org interview have split opinions on whether the Formula E electric race car series would be a success. One, Sebastian Vettel, said it was going to fail, that it’s not the future, because it doesn’t scream, and you don’t feel the vibration in your…
MotoCzysz For the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 racing seasons the Laguna Seca Raceway has hosted one of the most important historical sequence of racing events. I’m talking about the FIM e-Power, TTXGP and now eRoadRacing electric motorcycle races. Historical? The whole project of establishing electric motorcycle racing as a…
The ShootOut at the Bonneville Salt Flats is officially canceled ..per.. Post by KillaCycle Racing.
KillaCycle Racing has posted a few more pictures and statements. The short story is, that while the rain has let up the organizers will decide on Monday whether to cancel the event. Post by KillaCycle Racing. Post by KillaCycle Racing. Post by KillaCycle Racing.
Drayson Racing and Qualcomm Halo have signed a deal to “include Qualcomm Halo WEVC technology in [Drayson]’s products.” Hurm, I didn’t know Drayson Racing had products, I just thought they were a racing team. In any case the press release says that Drayson Racing will be able to “make and…
