Comments on: Lightning Motors Electric Motorcycle Runs 166 mph at Bonneville

By: FREEMAN

FREEMAN — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:35:24 +0000

@ Bob Nedoma: One of the two main sources of air pollution in urban areas is transportation (ie: your car, motorcycle, truck, etc). How are you offsetting your contribution to pollution? Maybe before you start worrying about electric vehicles, which you probably don't have, you should worry about what gave the biggest contribution and put the atmosphere in the condition it is in currently. There are many established companies out there recycling batteries. Take your pick of any of them. My, how about this one? That url should be easy enough for you to remember. Who's recycling your car exhaust?

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:13:31 +0000

So, 166 mph for 10 seconds something. So be it.!
What I need to know is how far…

Yep, that’s exactly what I said to Ernst Jakob Henne in 1936. The nerve of him thinking he’d done something worth noting! “Ernie baby”, I said, “give me something I can use!” He just turned away in shame.

By: Bob Nedoma

Bob Nedoma — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:03:55 +0000

So, 166 mph for 10 seconds something. So be it.!
What I need to know is how far I can go after climbing a two mile 8% incline hill in bumper to bumper traffic moving at three miles per hour,….
as well as: who will recycle these batteries (100%) when they become “reduced capacity”, after some two years or less.

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:28:00 +0000

It’s especially fascinating because it’s like the innovation atmosphere around the start of the car/motorcycle age except that now there’s a large installed base of good, well developed vehicles. Then you overlay this new stuff, major changes, on top of it. So you get a huge leg up; new electric vehicles can just reach into the bin to get great brakes and shocks for instance. I’m astounded by how fast these changes in electric vehicles have come, and by the performance angle, which 15 years ago I just assumed wasn’t going to be there. Now it seems obvious (ie. torque).

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:28:21 +0000

Cool. The gearheads who are still stuck in a nostalgic haze about the golden age of the internal combustion engine seem to be ignorant of the fact that we are approaching a golden age of electric vehicles – a time when new records and new innovations will keep coming at a rapid, exciting pace. It will only be a couple of years before one of the big magazines is running head-to-head shootouts between electric and gas motorcycles. Sounds cool to me.