Jeff Peoples from Muskegan, Michigan has completed his conversion. It took two months and $2800 for Jeff to cut and weld three different bikes together to come up with his 60 volt Etek powered machine. Looks from the video like he’s running Odyssey batteries.

Hey Jeff, you’re reading this let us know more.

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A group of high school students from St. Thomas Academy, in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, got a $10,000 grant to build an electric motorcycle. The lithium-phosphate powered machine can reach 60mph and has a range of 40 miles. Email requests for more technical information have gone unanswered so far. If we hear back from them we’ll update this post. Updated! See below…

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St. Thomas Academy

Project Web Site

Update: It helps if you email the right person. Update with more tech and photos…

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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.

Read more at News Blaze

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