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YAMAHA: Hybrid Hustler
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Yamaha has long been at the cutting edge of motorcycle technology—from the early days of Monocross suspension and YPVS power valves to five-valve cylinder heads, the hub-centred GTS1000, and the leaning three-wheeled Niken. Now, the company has teased another innovation: a hybrid-powered MT-09 prototype. In a video released on its global Japanese YouTube channel, Yamaha…
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TORQUING POINT: Honda’s hybrid, hybrid?
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Alan Dowds takes a look at how this could help save petrol-powered bikes Honda’s electrically-supercharged V3 concept was one of the most interesting things shown at EICMA. Our man Dowds looks at how this could help save petrol-powered bikes Sometimes in life, things aren’t quite what they seem. When Honda unveiled a new 75° V-3…
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Hybrids and upgrades for Kawasaki
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Kawasaki was fairly quiet at Milan: it had already released its interesting new Ninja 7 hybrid model, and the ZX-4RR and ZX-6R models were also already out. We did get a new Z7 naked version of the new hybrid bike, which looks a little less chunky than the Ninja, and uses exactly the same cunning…
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2024 Kawasaki Ninja 7 hybrid motorbike
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It’s the world’s first hybrid motorbike – and here’s my first impressions I’m just back from the launch of the new Kawasaki Ninja 7 hybrid bike in Barcelona. And it’s fair to say that I’m very impressed with it. It’s one of the most interesting bikes I’ve ever ridden, with an intriguing technology set-up, and…
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PATENTS: Kawasaki’s two-stroke engine for a HYBRID motorcycle
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Kawasaki’s filed patents for a two-stroke engine, which’ll generate energy to power an electric drivetrain. What is motorcycling going to look like in the future? Are ever stricter emissions laws going to put a stop to petrol-powered fun – meaning we’re all going to end up going electric? Kawasaki’s come up with a plan to…
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BMW files PATENT for a new flexible TANK. HYBRID motorcycle on the way?
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Patents have been filed by BMW for a new flexible fuel tank, which all but confirm that there’s a hybrid motorcycle on the way from the German giant. Of course, this isn’t the first we’ve heard about the Bavarian factories forays into the hybrid world. Remember Wunderlich’s BMW R 1200 GS which was powered by…
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Detachable motorcycle wins Department for Transport funding. Extends range of electric planes.
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A motorcycle that attaches to planes to increase their range was among a range of ambitious projects that received a share of £700,000 to improve UK transport. The Department for Transport has pledged to spend a third of its procurement budget with small- and medium-sized enterprises by 2022, aiming to provide inventive solutions to transport…
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BMW Boss: “The electric motorbike does not interest us, we are betting everything on the scooter”
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Our friends at Motociclismo Italy have been speaking to Stephan Schaller, Managing Director of BMW, about the Bavarian brand’s green future. Schaller said; “Two-wheeled electric vehicles will increase, but I believe that their diffusion will be limited to vehicles that will move in the city, basically will be scooters like our C Evolution or the…
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TVS Zeppelin Hybrid unveiled at Auto Expo 2018
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TVS, India’s third largest two-wheeled manufacturer and partner to BMW, has unveiled its all-new Zeppelin Hybrid concept at Auto Expo 2018. In short, it’s a belt-driven hybrid motorcycle, driven by a 220cc single-cylinder endothermic engine, which kicks out 20bhp at 8,500 rpm and 18.5 Nm of maximum torque at 7,000 rpm – to which its…
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