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Electric Motorcycles

As I’ve become more and more interested in green technologies, I’ve already decided that I’d like for my next vehicle to be electric.

For getting up and down from winter time mountain adventures, I see a Tesla Model X – http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx – or something similar in my future. But what about daily commuting? I could still use the Model X, but it takes up a good amount of space on the highway and even as an electric, it takes more energy to move than a smaller vehicle with the same rolling resistance and coefficient of drag.

Happily for me, there is a growing number of producers of electric motorcycles.

• Brammo Empulse – http://www.brammo.com/empulse/ Brammo Motorcycles is dead.  Well, not quite dead.  It looks like Brammo sold its motorcycle business to Polaris / Victory – http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/06/brammo-empulse-could-become-victory-charger/ – we’ll see where this goes.
  • It went here!
  • Victory Motorcycles – http://www.victorymotorcycles.com/en-us/electric/empulse-tt-titanium-silver-havasu-red
• Zero S – http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-s/
• Lit Motors – http://litmotors.com/
• MonoTracer – http://peraves.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/all-electric-monotracer-mte-150-brochure/
• Bultaco – http://www.bultaco.es/en/motos
• Motoczysz – http://motoczysz.com/
• Mission R – https://www.mission-motorcycles.com/ – seems to be dead.
• Harley-Davidson LiveWire – http://projectlivewire.harley-davidson.com

By the time I’m ready to purchase, there should be even more. Given how electric bikes sound, perhaps I’d need an appropriate helmet – http://www.airgraffix.com/collections/star-wars-themed-helmets/products/x-wing-fighter – Rebel Alliance anyone?  Then again, I could consider a Skully – https://www.skully.com/– augmented reality helmet.  Well, I would, except that Skully imploded earlier this year – http://www.digitaltrends.com/outdoors/skully-ar-shuts-down/.

Added 2014/12/22:

• Lightning Motorcycles – http://lightningmotorcycle.com/
• Energetica Motorcycles – http://www.energicasuperbike.com/
• Saietta Motorcycles (was Agility Motors) – http://saiettamotorcycles.com/ 

Still more:

• Austin Electric Powersports – http://www.atx8080.com/

Added 2014/05/13:

• Victory Motorcycles – http://www.victorymotorcycles.com/en-us/electric/empulse-tt-titanium-silver-havasu-red
• Alta Motors – http://www.altamotors.co/machine/redshift-sm/
• Johammer – http://www.johammer.com/en/
• Lito Sora – http://soraelectricsuperbike.com/

Added 2016/10/25:

• Zvexx – http://zvexx.com/