Apparently in an effort to reduce the effects of increased gas prices on customer pockets and that of global worming on Mother Nature, but actually a great way of staying strong on the market, Honda plans to introduce its first hybrid motorcycles until the beginning of 2011.
The system will be borrowed from the Honda Insight hybrid car and it will be implemented on motorcycles featuring 200cc and up to 1000cc traditional internal combustion engines. Engineers hope to squeeze car components on the future bikes and see the short way for this big evolutionary step.
Also, Honda will start production of smaller electric motorcycles in 2010, among which can also be found the successor of the Cub series. In this case, engines will be sized from 50 to 125cc and the bikes powered in such way are most likely to put the world of two wheels, like the first Honda Cub did.
Still, history won’t literally repeat itself as the new electric motorcycles will have a 30 kilometers range. Hopefully that’s enough to take you to and from work every day.
Two companies from Chine (Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. and Wuxi Angell) announced today to have joined forces in their common goal of developing an electric hybrid motorcycle that will further be produced for export. The idea at the base of the entire project is utilizing cells previously used for mining equipment.
The electric hybrid motorcycle will be sold around the world given to the fact that all of the requirements were completed, the only thing remaining to arrive being the (...) > Full story
Suzuki’s Crosscage hydrogen fuel cell powered electric bike is making its debut tomorrow at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show. The fuel cell for the Suzuki Crosscage was designed by Intelligent Energy and features its patented air-cooled system.
The Crosscage concept also features a semi-naked design and the major feature of a crosscage frame. Two large bars provide the bike chassis with stiffness, intersecting in the middle of the bike and it’s a design that may be employed on a (...) > Full story
A Japanese vehicle manufacturer unveiled the prototype of a new electric motorbike carrying a hybrid magnetic motor, which can run almost noiselessly up to 180 kilometers (112 miles) on one charge. Tokyo-based Axle Corporation says that the battery of the next-generation electric vehicle motorbike can be charged at home, in the same way as a cellular phone. It takes a little over 6 hours to fully charge the battery, and the vehicle’s maximum speed is capable of reaching 150 kilometers per (...) > Full story
How much of riding a motorcycle is really the sound of the machine itself? That’s the question that potential riders will ask if and when they try out a hydrogen-powered motorcycle, manufactured at Intelligent-Energy, in Leicestershire, the U.K.
Like its automobile brethren, this machine runs on hydrogen, feeding it into a chamber and forcing it react with oxygen. The result is—surprise—water. That water is the only byproduct. No fumes, just vapor.
What we have here is much more than a (...) > Full story
It’s not just a mode of transportation. It’s machine art. Or rather, Machineart, a company that has collaborated with eCycle, Inc. to produce three hybrid motorcycle concepts designed to evoke "lightness and the image of an advanced vehicle."
Operating much like the hybrid cars that seem to be all the rage these days (although slowly getting overshadowed by fuel cell and other "alternative" vehicles), these three hybrid motorcycle concepts get their power from a (...) > Full story
