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The Lightning Story: Chapter 4 – Breaking the 200mph Barrier

Author: Sia BaniOn: Mar 28Categories: Featured News No Comments

The Lightning Story: Chapter 4 – Breaking the 200mph Barrier

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In 2011 our first race of the year was the TT Zero at the Isle of Man in Europe.  We had to ship the bike and batteries separate due to the onerous regulations for shipping lithium batteries.  The bike was sent in pieces and the batteries came in direct...

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The Lightning Story: Chapter 3 – Setting records, racing and establishing a winning tradition.

Author: Sia BaniOn: Mar 20Categories: Featured News No Comments

In 2010, we entered the new North American Champions TTXGP Zero Emissions series.  This was the inaugural year and we raced in four events.  In the first race in Sonoma, there was an issue with the lean angle – scraping the body with the suspension. ...

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The Lightning Story: Chapter 2 – Getting up to speed & the first trip to Bonneville

Author: Sia BaniOn: Mar 14Categories: Featured News No Comments

After building the Lightning Lithium E1 in 2007, the team decided to branch out into a couple of related areas in 2008.  The first was a lithium powered ATV (see photo below).  The second project was one of the first Plug-in Prius cars with a 10kw/h...

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The Lightning Story: Chapter 1 – First Lightning Strike

Author: Sia BaniOn: Mar 06Categories: Featured News No Comments

THE LIGHTNING STORY: CHAPTER 1 – FIRST LIGHTNING STRIKE | Lightning Motorcycles Over the next few weeks we will be posting the Lightning history and updating our timeline to get us to a very exciting announcement in April. To begin with we want to talk...

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