solar powered motorcycle Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:33:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Speed Record Set By Solar-Powered “Lightning” Motorcycle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-solar-motorcycle-20121119/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-solar-motorcycle-20121119/#respond Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:31:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28308 Lightning Motorcycles has broken yet another record. With their electric motorcycle, they reached a speed of 189.086 mph for a course of 1.3 miles, running down the El mirage dry lake bed. This might come as a surprise to some, but the record is not just for electric motorcycles but for gas-powered ones too. In […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lightning-solar-motorcycle-20121119/feed/ 0 28308 $50 Motorcycle Retrofitted To Run on Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/student-motorcycle-solar-energy-20101003/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/student-motorcycle-solar-energy-20101003/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 07:53:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10826 Tony Danger Coiro, a student at Purdue University, has recently created a zero-emission electric motorcycle that is powered by solar energy. The motorcycle, which initially cost about $50, is a transformed version of an old 1978 Suzuki.

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