We don’t yet have electric airplane racing happening, but that doesn’t stop those who are building electric airplanes to see how fast or how far they can go. French pilot Hugues Duval has built an electric conversion of a tiny single-seater Cri Cri airplane, and been working on speed records with it.…
Last weekend Team Catavolt won the first Australian electric motorcycle championship race series concluded with the eFXC/TTXGP final race at Wakefield Park. The Australian series had three rounds, at Eastern Creek, Winton, and last weekend at Wakefield Park. There were only three bikes total racing, with two in the TTX75 class…
A group of children are playing with a ball. They lose control of the ball, and it rolls across the street. It’s an innocent daily occurrence sometimes resulting in a dead child, a driver facing criminal charges, outrage over a needless death, anguished parents, and so on. Who’s really at…
Today the timing and location of the TTXGP 2011 World Final Championship electric motorcycle race was announced, and it will be held in Anglesey, UK on October 15/16. For the TTXGP it’s not only the capping off of an amazing 2011 season, it’s a return to a venue where…
An electric car designed and built by Brigham Young University Engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class. The record was 155.8 mph averaged over its two required qualifying runs, with a maximum speed of 175 mph. The team was led by recently retired associate professor…
It will be held on May 18, 2012 at the Lebanon Valley Dragway in Lebanon PA and include EV Car show EV Drag Racing EV Vendors EV Drag racing with cars, motorcycles and even Junior Dragsters http://www.ecedra.com/2012evdragracingexpo.html
The Ohio State Buckeye Electric Motorcycle Race Team competed a couple weekends ago in a land speed record event held in Maxton NC by the East Coast Timing Association. They achieved a speed of 112.349 miles/hr setting a record, within the ECTA, for electric motorcycles. The results show a…
Victory & title for Matthias Himmelmann (Münch Racing) 24th September 2011 TTXGP Münch continue to dominate Europe’s electric racing scene with as yet unmatched performance. The German rider, Matthias Himmelmann strongly dominated the TTXGP/FIM combined event at the Le Mans circuit, in opening of the renowned FIM 24 Hours Endurance race.…
Yesterday two Silicon Valley area EV technology companies, Kleenspeed and Zero Motorcycles, took their “Research & Development” go-karts to a go-kart track and, uh, engaged in some competitive research. It was billed as the E-Kart ScootOut 2011 with Kleenspeed’s name all over it, but that it was an “open forum”…
In a race pitting the MotoCzysz E1PC electric superbike against gas powered race motorcycles, MotoCzysz ran great until having to bow out possibly due to a shredded rain tire. The race was held the weekend of Sept 17-18 at Portland International Raceway during round 6 of the OMRRA Championship race…
Czech scooter company AKUMOTO is claiming to have set a world record for the longest distance covered by an electric scooter in 24 hours. The endurance run was made during European Mobility Week, the 19-20th of September 2011, at the Prague Strašnice. The team rode the electric scooter 1136.3 kilometers, or…
Toyota’s mission in life isn’t just making wildly popular sedans for the masses. Another division, Toyota Motorsports, exists to build fast cars. Toyota announced today they just set a record lap time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for an electric vehicle. The Nürburgring (or Nürburg Ring) is a famous race track…
The other day Ford and Toyota announced a partnership to develop hybrid drive train technology for light trucks and SUV’s. That nice announcement filled my mind with images of contractors, construction workers and farmers driving around hybrid F-150’s or F-250’s starting in 2020ish. But then a couple brain cells…
According to a C|NET News report researchers in Louisana have researched the use of “Alligator fat” to produce biodiesel. This is yet another in a long string of researchers developing a method to convert animal fats directly into biodiesel. Some people will go “eeewwww” over this. While others might…
A group of researchers at the U of Michigan and Ford Motor have concluded there is sufficient resources of lithium for the next 90 years, enough to supply a large-scale global fleet of electric vehicles through at least 2100. Lithium is a key element in electric vehicle batteries though by…
