As we gear up for the 2012 TTXGP North America season opening race at Infineon Raceway, we learn that Moto-Electra Racing will not be at the race. In a note on the teams Facebook page, Moto-Electric Racing team owner Brian Richardson posted a note (see text below) about their plans…
This weekend an electric car, a Ford Focus Electric, will be the pace car in the NASCAR Capital City 400, at the Richmond International Raceway. Unfortunately it won’t be participating in the race, just acting as the pace car. Still, this could be a significant move in that getting electric…
The opening round of the eFXC/TTXGP 2012 Australian series was held south of Sydney at Wakefield Park raceway last weekend, with a single race being held on both Saturday and Sunday. The race had two teams participating, Ripperton and Solar Power Australia (Catavolt). Both teams made many improvements to their…
A couple weeks ago the 2012 FIM e-Power race series launched on the weekend of April 15 at Mangy-Cours. The race had a small showing of teams and unsurprisingly Meunch won the race. Meunch had not only Matthias Himmelmann riding but new team-mate Katja Poensgen. “We are very happy with…
After last years struggles between FIM and TTXGP running joint electric motorcycle race events we thought they would not repeat the experiment in 2012. We are pleasantly pleased and excited to see the following:Strengthening the collaboration between FIM and TTXGP both parties have once again agreed to combine three rounds…
Have an electric car, and want to drive it around a real race track? If you live near Indianapolis you can go to the Indianapolis Speedway on Saturday May 12 and take a spin around that famous race track. The event is named The EV Rally and is sponsored in…
Brammo first unveiled the Empulse in July 2010, at the time of that years Laguna Seca FIM e-Power race. The bike was originally going to be on sale in 2011, but due to a design change Brammo decided to push back Empulse production to begin in 2012. In 2011, in…
Over on Facebook, Jeremiah Johnson (a pro AMA Racer) announced he had applied and been approved to race in the 2012 TTXGP North America season. Johnson, in addition to being an AMA Pro, has been interested in electric motorcycles for several years. I met him in 2009 when the TTXGP…
Audi’s upcoming electric supercar, the Audi R8 e-tron, promises to not only be an exciting electric car, it will have a unique sound thanks to an engineering effort to craft an artificial sound signature that supposedly says “Audi”. The last couple years a small controversy has dogged electric cars development.…
Fisker Automotive’s long awaited new car, the Fisker Atlantic, was revealed today on the eve of the New York Auto Show, continuing the company’s tradition of extended range electric luxury cars it is a family-oriented car meant to be compared with the Audi A5 or BMW 3-series. Today, on the…
The other day we noted that TTXGP had posted their 2012 North American season schedule, of four races (one location TBD) and plans to hold the TTXGP World Final in Daytona FL. Over on Facebook, Brammo commented on TTXGP’s schedule posting saying this: We plan to contest every North American…
The StuntBusters show on SPEEDTV did an attempt to show which is faster – gas or electric. The event was staged and not terribly like real race conditions. So we shouldn’t read into this anything more than an attempt to entertain and inform people. And, for sure, it put electric…
The Isle of Man TT website reports today that Mugen is sending an electric race motorcycle to this years TT Zero race. Mugen is more-or-less a factory team for Honda, in that Mugen was formed by members of the Honda family, Mugen’s role is to soup up Honda vehicles, but…
The Lola-Drayson team have just revealed what is intended to be the fastest electric-powered racing car in the world. The B12/69EV is built on a current Lola LMP1 chassis with Drayson’s 4X2-640 drive train, that is claimed to propel the car at speeds up to 200 miles/hr and deliver more power than an equivalent…
The TTXGP and the UEM (the European Federation of the FIM) recently announced a partnership in which UEM sanctions the TTXGP activities in Europe. TTXGP is the electric motorcycle racing series that launched in 2009 on the Isle of Man, and in 2010 and 2011 ran racing series in Europe,…
