article thumbnail

MAHLE Powertrain and White Motorcycle Concepts developing fully electric 3-wheeled motorcycle for police, emergency first responders

Green Car Congress

MAHLE Powertrain is working with White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC) to develop a fully electric three-wheeled motorcycle suited to the requirements of police, emergency first responders and last-mile delivery fleets. The V-Duct applied in the WMC300FR 3-wheeled hybrid bike.

article thumbnail

Ricardo’s low-cost, fuel-efficient automatic transmission concept for motorcycles

Green Car Congress

Ricardo has developed and demonstrated an advanced and cost-effective motorcycle Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) concept that offers the comfort and convenience of automatic and semi-automatic operation with better-than-manual fuel efficiency. —Stefano Di Palma, AMT lead engineer for Ricardo Motorcycle.

Low Cost 220
article thumbnail

DENSO develops a new low-cost fuel injection system for small motorcycles

Green Car Congress

Global automotive supplier DENSO Corporation has developed a new electronic fuel injection system for small motorcycles called DIET-FI (DENSO Intelligent Economical Technology-Fuel Injection). Conventional FI systems for motorcycles comprise sensors, actuators, and ECUs to ensure high-precision control of the air-fuel ratio.

Low Cost 218
article thumbnail

Enevate and Lightning Motorcycles partner to commercialize extreme fast charging battery for electric motorcycle

Green Car Congress

Enevate, a developer of a silicon-dominant composite anode material and high energy density batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and other markets ( earlier post ), has partnered with Lightning Motorcycles to equip Lightning’s Strike Carbon motorcycle with Enevate’s EV-sized extreme fast charge advanced lithium-ion cells.

article thumbnail

Europe’s newest long-range, low-cost electric motorcycle is production-ready and looks good

Electrek

When we first covered the Alrendo TS Bravo earlier this year , it was shaping up into an interesting new option headed for the European electric motorcycle market. more… The post Europe’s newest long-range, low-cost electric motorcycle is production-ready and looks good appeared first on Electrek.

article thumbnail

IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

Green Car Congress

IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. Growth is also being boosted by consumer awareness and acceptance in Europe of the benefits of electric motorcycles. 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data.

article thumbnail

Zero Motorcycles signs first eastern Asia distributor, delivers 59 units to Hong Kong government

Green Car Congress

Electric motorcycle company Zero Motorcycles signed its first eastern Asia distributor, Yuen Ho Trading Company, Ltd. In celebration of the occasion, Zero Motorcycles representatives were in Hong Kong presenting the Hong Kong government with 59 MY 2012 Zero S motorcycles as part of Zero’s single largest fleet sale to date.