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…
Zero Motorcycles put out a press release today saying they, well, Kenyon Kluge, had not only taken 2nd place in the eRoadRacing World Cup race just held at Laguna Seca, but that they won the eSuperStock Production Award at the race. I must have missed that award being given out. …
As we predicted, Lightning Motorcycles with Carlin Dunne did win outright in the motorcycle division. That news is being overshadowed by a shocker of a win by Sebastien Loeb with an 8:13.878 lap time that demolished the previous record of 9:46.164 held by Rhys Millen, but we’re here to discuss…
This years Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is shaping up to be a major feast of electric racing, and it’s just gotten better with a second AMA Pro racer signing up to ride an electric production bike up the mountain. As we had noticed earlier, Hollywood Electrics is organizing 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…
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…
The 2012 TTXGP season demonstrated one thing really well – that production electric motorcycles are now good enough for credible racing. The electric car field doesn’t have anything equivalent. First, there isn’t an electric car racing series with any history, well other than NEDRA electric drag racing. Second, there isn’t…
The electric division in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is going to have two former Kings of the Mountain in contention. It’s probably a sign of a shift in racing, that two contestants in the electric division are headlining the press release just sent out by the PPIHC organizers…
I had the best of intentions to post several quick reports from the track throughout the day at the REFUEL 2012 event, but did only the one. Now it’s late at night and I just want to go to sleep. But it’ll be good to write up a quick something…
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”…
