Five University of Victoria students have built an electric motorcycle as their final project. They claim the nickel metal hydride batteries will charge in about an hour and the dash has a nifty touch screen. The bike has a range of 15 miles and a top speed of 60 mph.

The team took three months and $8,000 to complete but it appears to be worth the effort. They won three awards at the Capstone Project Day on July 25.

Source: Victoria News.

In two related articles for the Boston Herald, Laura Crimaldi, mentions that New Bedford, Massachusetts, police are patrolling on Vectrix ZEV electric motorcycles. Vectrix Corp donated the two motorcycles to the 282-person department for patrolling the waterfront and the downtown shopping district.

Police: rising fuel costs are ‘major public safety issue’

Mass. municipalities aim to boost efficiency

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…

Via KSTP (w/ video)

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.

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