Electric Motorcycles

Electric motorcycles face the hardest version of the battery problem. There is no room for a large pack, no tolerance for weight, and riders judge range differently from drivers. That has pushed the segment toward swappable batteries and small high-C-rate cells earlier than the car market did.

It makes bikes a useful place to watch technology that reaches cars later. We cover road bikes, scooters and the swapping networks being built around them, including the standards fights that decide whether a battery bought in one city works in the next.