I recently came over an article where Jeremy Cleland drove at an average of more than 150mph  (241,4Km/h) over two miles (3,22Km) on an electric bike named “The Mission One”. Now that’s what I call progress!

According to the article (link at bottom of post) the 240 Volt powered bike beat 70% of all the petrol-engine bikes in the competition held at Bonneville salt flats in Utah. Quite impressive!

The bike will be available for consumers this year! – at a price of £42.000 which is roughly US $68.400 – a bit too pricey for my taste, but I’m sure the price for these dream machines will drop drastically in the coming years as competition tightens.

Mission Motors, who developed The Mission One, first showed off the bike at the 2009 TTXGP on Isle of Man (click here for an article on that + early photos).

According to online rumors (now there’s a great source for ya!) the consumer bike will be capable of doing 150 miles (241,4Km) on a single charge. Sounds like the perfect city bike eh?

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1214834/Electric-superbike-smashes-speed-record-breaking-150mph-mark.html

This is kinda old news since the race was in June, but hey, it’s still interesting! Indian based Team Agni won the very first electric motorcycle race, TTXGP, that I wrote about in a previous post (click here to read that one).

Their bike was a modified 2007 GSX-R600. The average speed for the bike around Isle of Man was 140,7km/h (87,434mph), not bad for something that runs on a battery! Thomas Schönfelder took second place in his battery powered Laverda and he also had the top speed during the race, a gasping 171,5km/h (106,5mph)!

A new race next year is confirmed and it will be interesting to see what batteries they’ve come up with then!

Hit this site for lots of cool photos of the motorcycles that participated: EV Racing News.

Isle of Man electric motorcycle race

 
Inspection before the race starts, no petrol here! (left), Team Kingston University (right)

Links:

More Photos of the bikes: EV Racing News
MotorcycleNews: TTXGP: Team Agni blitzes field in first practice
HellForLeather: Team Agni wins inaugural TTXGP