Electric motorcycle Archives

What’s Next?

If you’ve read The Last Word at all lately, you’re probably aware that electric motorcycles have been an unmitigated failure so far. Unlike the auto industry, where the EVs have established...

Electric Vehicle Ban

A racetrack in rural Wales, the Anglesey Trac Môn Circuit, just became the first in the United Kingdom to ban electric vehicles. More important, at least to this column, is that Anglesey’s ban...

An Up-and-Coming Game Changer?

I don’t know if the future of motorcycles will be as battery-powered as many pundits claim. Lacking Nostradamus’ vision into the future, I cannot begin to predict what might happen 30 years...

Harley-Davidson LiveWire Motorcycle can now be Pre-Ordered

Harley-Davidson® has announced that Canadian pre-order period opened April 17 for the all-new electric LiveWire™. The highly anticipated release of the LiveWire has come, with...

Harley-Davidson Going Electric

The Five Year Plan . . . During an exclusive interview with the Milwaukee Business Journal, Harley-Davidson’s senior vice-president of global demand, Sean Cummings, recently stated the company...

Zero Motorcycles Adds New Models For 2016

Zero Motorcycles is rolling out a couple of new models and upgrades for 2016. New for 2016, the DSR takes the powertrain of the company’s SR model and stuffs it into their dualsport bike,...

2016 Victory Empulse TT Electric Motorcycle

Since acquiring Brammo (formerly makers of electric motorcycles) it would seem Victory Motorcycles has been sprinting towards this moment. The release of the 2016 Victory Impulse TT represents yet...

Victory Motorcycles To Race Isle of Man TT

Victory Motorcycles has just announced its plan to race a prototype electric motorcycle at this years Isle of Man TT. What follows is the actual press release from Victory Motorcycles “The...