Looks like Ely has stepped aside as CEO to become CTC. The new position, Chief Technology Consultant, was created for Ely to focus on development of 2nd and 3rd products from Electric Moto.

The board of directors announced the creation of an Interim Management Team of corporate personnel designed to (a) launch an immediate executive search for a new CEO, and (b) continue to pursue initiatives outlined by the firm’s investment bankers.

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The Eureka Reporter ran a short article about Zero Motorcycles.

You just plug it into an outlet and it takes two hours to charge. Most of the cars take 10 to 12 hours,” Bermers said. Once charged, the street-legal model goes for 60 miles and the off-road goes for about 40, Bermers said. “They say it will only cost you less than one cent per mile to drive.”

Sounds good to me. Read the whole article here.

The BBM-1 is one of a few bikes totally designed from the ground up to be an Electric Motorcycle. It uses 48 volts of lifePO4 batteries to go 40 miles with speeds of up to 50mph. The bike uses two motors, a hub motor and a ‘boost’ motor. They bike weighs about 200 pounds. The builder hopes to start selling the BBM-2 for around $8000 for a standard model.

Battery Box Motorbike

Charlie has an Instructable on his convertion. He’s getting 70mph with a 15 mile charge out of his ‘82 Yamaha eBay special.

Like many others I decided to quit waiting for a decent electric road bike at a reasonable price, so I built one out of a spare bike I bought off eBay for about $700.

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Other websites are calling this a motorcycle. It’s not really a motorcycle, it does have peddles and you must keep peddling at all times which sort of means it’s a bicycle. The website claims a range of around 37 miles. But then, can’t you just keep peddling? You know, like on a bicycle? The eROCKIT from the German company ErockIT GmbH has a silly name but it has a top speed of 50mph from it’s 13hp motor. It weighs in at around 240lbs and should be available in very limited quantities some time in 2009. The expected price of $36,000 will lessen the chances you’ll be commuting on it.

eROCKIT.net