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Pretty Cool.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/motoczysz-isle-of-man-tt-zero/#ixzz0qIZNOGwk (http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/motoczysz-isle-of-man-tt-zero/#ixzz0qIZNOGwk)

That is a fast lap for a Zero. They are so odd to watch with breaking air as the only sound.

and the sound is what i need about a bike, especially carbon exhaust on my Monster

Would love to see them do well!  [bow_down]  [thumbsup]

This is one of those things, like the TTXGP, that actually could spark significant investment into the electric motorcycle industry.

100 mph!  That is just awesome.   [clap]

not sure if this has been posted already, i searched but couldn't find it anywhere  :)

i highly recommend watching this documentary on the evolution of the zero emissions bikes  [thumbsup]

CHARGE Movie Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rogV80QfLYQ#normal)

by Mark Neale the director of FASTER and narrated by Ewan McGregor

cool but they should put playing cards in the wheels like we did as kids on our spoke tires.
also, how can you call it zero emissions?  don't mean this as political either.

animals and birds were an issue... they didn't hear the bikes coming

and it's not me that calls it zero  ;)  --->  http://chargemovie.com/ (http://chargemovie.com/)

 ;D

+1

absolute rubbish

"lower" emissions maybe.. just maybe.. but that depends on a LOT

That 100mph goal reminds me of the quest to "do the ton" back in the 60's.  It will be another milestone that will extend past its expectations.

My kids all have those Razor MX650 dirt bikes and a Razor go cart.  All of which are batt operated.  Maintenance wise, these things are great to have.  Charge and go.  I don't have to worry about if the gas sits to long or worry if its going to start after sitting for a month or so.  There are some sacrifices to battery operated vehicles like short run times or the inability to just gas and go but for some applications it ok.

They have all the soul of a cheap dildo.

-1. It's not rubbish at all.

Zero emissions is possible from the vehicle. It can be run without using any power (assuming you have a set of solar panels on your roof, drive very little and don't use those solar panels to power anything else). So, is it zero emissions in practice? Nope. But it's possible, and that's something you can't say for an internal combustion engine in anything.

It's also much easier for the EPA to monitor a few powerstations per state to ensure they meet emissions than it is to monitor the three hundred million plus vehicles the US has on its streets.

Seriously, how many of us still have the emissions canisters on our bikes?

Electricity can come from a multitude of sources (oil being just one of them). So you're not tied to one commodity and its most powerful exchange: OPEC.

Here's a handful of pictures I took of the electric bikes.

They were tricky. Not as fast as the gas bikes, but if you got distracted they'd sneak up on you. [laugh]

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/zarn02/TT%20Zero/DSC_9309-small.jpg)

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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/zarn02/TT%20Zero/DSC_9356-small.jpg)

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No such thing as zero anything.  What did it take to make the batteries?  Did they use coal to provide electricity for that plant or nuclear energy?  The joke is on us who have believed there is such thing as clean energy source.  You get dirty to get clean

What about hydroelectric?

still have to manufacture the batteries.

to my knowledge, there is no such thing as green battery manufacturing now.   you're going to have to deal with the waste of spent batteries plus the waste of procuring the substances needed for them (lead?  sulfuric acid?  lithium?  nickel and cadmium?)


+1

..are you suggesting that electric race bikes have all that???

oh, wait...

what is possible is irrelevant.  it's possible for me to fly and fart dixie if only i could defy gravity and control my bowels to that extent.

and that is the religion of the "zero emissions" crowd -- Ifonlyism

and those power stations emit waste

The tailpipe emissions are zero, in fact it doesn't have one.  We don't count the power plant to charge it or any of the other valid points that were mentioned :P

More accurate to say there is no zero environmental impact source of power generation; yet anyway.  Hydroelectric won't produce carbon emmisions, but it damn sure make the beast with two backss up the ecology of the rivers they're plopped on.

Dams can only be placed in so many places.
Wind farms take up large areas of land or water, can only be placed in so many places, have environmental impacts on avian species as well as other displaced ground species.
Solar arrays take up large areas of land (again displacing ground species) and can only be placed in so many places (flat enough ground with enough sun exposure).

All of this "green" movement is moot anyway and is missing a more immediate threat that is fresh water consumption versus the world population growth.  Very soon we're going to see the cry shift from omg there is carbons to omg there's no water.

Energy Meets Water - AMSE M.E. Magazine July (http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2011/July/Energy_Meets_Water.cfm)

Pretty cool, zero schmiro, just cool.