The best electric motorcycles you can buy

“It’ll be too loud, too dangerous. Nobody’s gonna want to buy that.” This is what Arthur Davidson said about a bigger, stronger, faster motorbike, according to the miniseries Harley and the Davidsons. Throttle forward a century, and now there are nearly 10 million registered motorcycles in the United States. The industry faces completely opposite doubts …

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Tesla Motorcycle: Why there may never be one, best concepts, and competitors

  Is there a Tesla motorcycle? The short answer is no, and if you believe Elon Musk, there might never be one. The entrepreneur has personal reasons why he doesn’t want Tesla to release an electric motorcycle. (More about that in a second.) But Musk is known for changing his mind, so the mythical Tesla …

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What is MPGe?

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When you’re shopping around for a new hybrid or electric car, you’ll likely come across the acronym “MPGe”. An abbreviation for “miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent”, MPGe is an energy efficiency metric introduced in 2010 by the Environmental Protection Agency to compare the amount of energy consumed by vehicles powered by alternative fuel to gas-powered …

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How do lithium-ion batteries work?

The lithium-ion batteries found in EVs, smartphones, headphones, and many other gadgets use a reversible chemical reaction to circulate electrons and generate electrical energy. Lithium-ion batteries are present in most of your high-tech rechargeable devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, speakers, headphones, etc. They play a central role in the modern mobile culture as they …

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