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Electric motorcycle smashes records

Posted April 06, 2007 2:49 PM

From Crave: The gadget blog:

The KillaCycle, an all-electric motorcycle, is now the fastest electric vehicle of all time. At a drag race in Chandler, Ariz., the bike completed a quarter mile in 8.168 seconds, breaking the six-year-old record of 8.801 held by Dennis Berube with an electric car for more than six years. The bike cranked it up to 155.87 miles an hour. Even more impressive, it hit this level of performance twice, on April 3 and April 4.

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Re: Electric motorcycle smashes records

04/08/2007 2:14 PM

"They hold so much energy, we could make six or seven runs without recharging," the group wrote on its Web site"

This must mean there's marginals for even faster runs?

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