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[Richard230]

The August 2012 issue of Rider magazine has a two page overview article describing the current production electric motorcycles (almost) available on the market. The article is titled "Electric Avenue" in their monthly "Kickstarts" section and starts on page 18 of the magazine. It features a large photo of the Empulse R and a smaller photo of the Zero street model range. There is no new information in the article, but some press is better than no press. It covers the Brammo and Zero products and mentions the KillerCycle drag racer and the Monto-Electric Norton (which was featured in their magazine last month).

[Richard230]

I forgot to mention the most interesting statement in this article.  The text starts with:

"Motorcyclists....will welcome a new type of electric motorcycle which is being introduced, and which, it is claimed, will run from 75 to 100 miles on a single battery charge, start instantly on the turn of a switch, and run absolutely without noise".  Thus began a news item in Popular Mechanics.....from 1911!

It appears that either vaporware is over 100 years old or the Empulse R was introduced 100 years ago.