MotoCzysz announced today their team lineup and plans for racing in the 2013 season. It included the expected visit to the Isle of Man for the TT ZERO at the end of May, but a very welcome move to participate in the eRoadRacing series. The team lineup is full of…
The 2013 eRoadRacing World Cup calendar that’s been published so far is incomplete, with the organizers claiming they’re working on confirming at least one more date in both Europe and North America. As it stands the published calendar shows 3 events on both continents, but I’d been told of a…
2013 Zero S Zero Motorcycles and Hollywood Electrics has given the production electric motorcycle class at the 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb a big boost of support. The two companies announced today they were partnering to participate in the PPIHC on June 30, 2013, in Cascade, Colo. Hollywood Electrics…
On Monday, Team Icon Brammo released images of the new livery (designed by Icon) that Steve Atlas and Eric Bostrom will be wearing during the 2013 season. The information release includes detailed pictures of not just the Empulse R, but the Empulse TTX, and shows both bikes in action dicing…
Jeremiah JohnsonTTXGP 2012 World ChampionshipDaytona International Raceway Jeremiah Johnson (Be-EV.com) announced on Wednesday that he would be racing a 2013 Zero S in the as-yet-unnamed electric motorcycle racing series that’s due to supplant the TTXGP and e-Power series for 2013. I’m sorry that the situation of the TTXGP/e-Power is overshadowing…
Brammo announced on Tuesday a historic agreement with the AFM allowing Brammo’s Empulse R, Empulse TTX and Empulse RR electric motorcycles to compete directly in AFM races. For the first time electric motorcycle racers will be able to compete for points and championship position in regular gas bike racing. The…
Lightning Motorcycles has signed two-time Isle of Man TT Winner Cameron Donald to race for the team in the TT Zero and European electric motorcycle racing. The Australian won both the Superbike and Superstock classes during the 2008 TT Week. He joins Michael Barnes and Miguel Duhamel on the Lightning…
Electric motorcycle dealer, Hollywood Electrics, and the M1GP, is making history by bringing the first electric motorcycle racing class to club-level racing. Anybody with a qualifying electric motorcycle can run in M1GP races, and win points within the electric motorcycle class over the season. It sounds like the requirements are…
This teaser picture was posted by Brammo on Facebook showing a part of the Empulse TTX. It is based on Empulse R (as expected) so all the positive experience Empulse R owners are giving will be carrying over to the TTX. The Empulse TTX was announced in July 2011, the…
As arbitrary as our calendar is, this is a new year (by the way we reckon time) and, well, here’s my thoughts about what we’ll see in the coming year in electric racing. Overall I think we’ve seen great leaps over the last three years of electric racing, and I see that…
Virginia Tech isn’t the only TTXGP team getting ready for the 2013 season. Today, Brammo was at Thunderhill for a private track-day with Shelina Moreda and Eric Bostrom. Let’s try to not read too much into Steve Atlas not being there, okay? They had at the track Empulse R’s, Empulse…
The 2012 North America TTXGP season saw the entry of the Virginia Tech BOLT team, a student team supported in part by Kollmorgen who supplied the motor and controller. The team showed an impressive performance for their first season, with a bike that performed well in its class, and a…
Quimera’s AEGT01 (All Electric GT) is being displayed in a window at the GT Club in Barcelona, starting last week. It’s described as “the very first of a high performance electric racing cars family”. Specs are three electric motor of 700CV (525 kW), and a maximum Torque of 1000 Nm,…
Zero Motorcycles’ 2013 model year features higher power motors, higher energy density battery packs, offering significantly higher speed and longer range than the 2012 models and now has smart phone apps letting the rider customize the bikes performance characteristics. Electric motorcycle manufacturer Zero Motorcycles unveiled today their 2013 model line.…
Brandon Nozaki Miller, riding a modified Zero Motorcycles made Zero S ZF6 electric motorcycle, sets a new land speed record for lightweight electric motorcycles. There is a little friendly shootout underway in the electric motorcycle land speed record field. In August a land speed record was set in the under…
