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The rate of progress at Zero Motorcycles has accelerated for 2013. A new motor offers twice as much power as last year’s Zeros, and new battery packs boost range at highway speeds by more than 25 percent. If things continue at this rate, the company will be offering electric motorcycles in a couple of years [...]
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The technological path from the Wrights’ powered flight in 1903 to Neil Armstrong hopping off the ladder onto the powdery surface of the moon in 1969 was anything but easy. It would take to the end of the Wright decade before powered flight was beyond purely experimental and World War I to give developers impetus [...]
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The crew at Zero Motorcycles has been hard at work. From the 2010 to 2011 model year, Zero largely engineered new electric motorcycles under its existing designs, creating essentially all-new machines that resembled their predecessors. In 2012, they’ve done it again, designing new machines that are vastly more capable than last year’s, although superficially, they [...]
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Halloween is fun, Thanksgiving’s nice and it’s like Christmas every day when you ride motorcycles. But what keeps us two-wheel enthusiasts awake in our footie pajamas, filled with expectations, and kicks off our holiday season every November is the annual pilgrimage to EICMA—the Esposizione Internazionale del Ciclo e Motociclo! That’s the International Exposition of Bicycles [...]
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[ The Brammo Empulse (above), can be positively filled with batteries (a 10 kW-h pack in the top-line model) that occupy all the space between the frame rails. Each additional 2 kW-h adds 30 pounds, so the 6 kW-h model weighs just 360 pounds, while the 10 kW-h model scales 420—with claimed ranges of 60 [...]
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Zero Motorcycles hasn’t launched all-new motorcycles—at least not yet—for the 2011 model year. What the company has done is so thoroughly upgrade its current models that they might as well be considered new, with upgrades to essentially every major system. Begin with appearance: New plastic bodywork starts to move Zero away from the box-of-batteries look [...]
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Photography by Brian Blades Eco-awareness is at an all-time high. It seems like everywhere you look there are new alternatives to the internal-combustion engine popping up everywhere. One of the latest two-wheeled examples is the Zero X electric dirtbike, and I got a chance to ride one to get a taste of at least one [...]
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