In the TTXGP North America 2nd round, at Portland International Raceway, there was a little allegation that Steve Atlas had “stopped” on the track because his race was over, but there were still riders whose final laps had not finished. Supposedly this interfered with those riders, and one (or more)…
Coming soon – a DVD showcasing the 2012 TTXGP/eFXC season in Australia. See http://www.evmotorcycle.org/ for more info.
This weekend is the TTXGP race at Assen, and while I know the race has been run, I’m running a little behind … A brother-sister team, Mike & Kim Brouwers of Brouwers Racing, are new participants this time. Kim Brouwers is riding Agni Motors’ 2009 bike which won that years TTXGP on the…
Zongshen Racing has been riding bikes powered by Agni motors since their entree into TTXGP racing in 2010. That year the team raced with the bike that Rob Barber rode for Agni to victory in the initial TTXGP on the Isle of Man. During 2011 the team built two bikes…
In the rush to announce the overall winners from last weekends e-Power/TTXGP race at Laguna Seca, I forgot to mention the two awards. The TTXGP offers an overall ranking of 1st through 10th (or whatever) place finishers, and in addition has two special awards for specific subsets of the racing…
The Virginia Tech team is a newcomer to the TTXGP scene, but have made two impressive showings so far. The team has won the TTX75 classification (“award”) in both outings, at Portland, and now at Laguna Seca. The team has issued a press release saying the following: Finally we are…
See my full race report at: Lightning and Brammo win 2012 e-Power/TTX race at Laguna Seca during Red Bull US Grand Prix The big takeaway is the speed & lap time improvements over the 2011 and 2010 races. Where last year 1 bike was ridden at speeds matching the 600cc superbikes…
Unsurprisingly the top three positions on the grid for this weekends e-Power/TTX race are Lightning and Brammo, closely followed by Meunch Racing. However there are some surprises and disappointments further down the grid. I’ll do my best to add pictures to this later. The day offered excellent racing conditions, with…
At the REFUEL race, Steve Atlas implied to me that Brammo was about to change something on the Empulse RR that would add some speed (reduce lap times). It sounded like “better motor” and we now have verification on the Brammo blog that they’ve changed the motor (see link below).…
Due to a little SNAFU in charging my electric car, I wasn’t able to make it to the track today, however I have my press pass and will be there bright and early tomorrow. In the meantime I see the TTXGP crew have posted a race report which you can…
I captured this entry list for the 2012 FIM e-Power/TTXGP off of Facebook. There are some interesting details here. 11 RICH Ted USA Zero Motorcycles ZERO 18 SCHLESS Ely USA Promoto HONDA RSE 32 BOSTROM Eric USA Team Icon Brammo 2012 EMPULSE RR 49 HIMMELMANN Matthias GER Münch Racing TTE…
Fast charging for electric cars should be a huge boost to electric car adoption, if there is widespread deployment of fast charging stations, and an announcement that REMA will begin manufacturing SAE DC Fast Charging plugs and sockets takes us a step closer to that day. Quietly in the background…
If range anxiety is the bugaboo of electric cars, Coda Automotive’s Aaron Cohen calls on automakers to build electric cars that inspire range confidence instead. The major concerns about electric vehicles are Price and Range, and Coda Automotive’s Aaron Cohen gave a presentation at this weeks Plug-in 2012 conference talking…
This in from Chip Gribben on the NEDRA group on Facebook: Shawn Lawless blasted his full rail dragster, Matrix, to 125 mph in the 1/8 mile today at the Dragway of Magnolia in Ohio with an ET of 5.924. The dragster features a 363 volt A123 pack built by Derek…
The eFXC/TTXGP series headed to sunny Queensland Raceway for round two of a highly contested battle between Daniel Sailor (Ripperton Racing) and Jason Morris (Catavolt / Impact AV), the two having won a race a piece at the first round, the weather conditions promised to be good and true to…
