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What do you get when you combine a Canadian electric scooter company known for high quality designs and years of feedback from the electric scooter community? The world’s first electric Hyper Scooter, which is what the Apollo Pro claims it will be when it begins shipping early next year. This isn’t Apollo Scooters’ first brush with innovation. The Montreal-based company has spent years developing its own electric scooter designs that rely heavily on the feedback it receives from its tens of thousands of electric…

The Round Rock, Texas-based electric powersports company Volcon may be a relative newcomer to the industry, but the American manufacturer has already made a splash with its popular Grunt off-road electric motorcycle. Now the company is following up with twice the wheels and well over twice the power in the new all-electric Volcon Stag UTV. The Stag was first teased nearly two years during the company’s launch, but development of the Grunt electric motorcycle took most of Volcon’s manpower. After the Grunt began…

Ducati appears to have made quick progress on its electric motorcycle development, especially considering that the program was first unveiled last October. That’s when Ducati announced that it would become the sole supplier of racing electric motorcycles for the FIM MotoE racing series, replacing the current supplier Energica. At the time, Ducati did not have a publicly acknowledged electric motorcycle development program and had spent years making excuses for why it was not ready to produce electric motorcycles.…

A Tesla Model S Plaid that has been hacked to remove software limitations has reached a top speed of over 200 mph (and then some) for the very first time, delivering on Tesla’s promise. When Tesla first announced the Model S Plaid, its new top-performance flagship electric vehicle, the automaker promised a top speed of 200 mph (322 km/h). However, when it was first delivered last year, the vehicle “only” featured a top speed of 163 mph (262 km/h). Earlier this year, Tesla released a new ‘Track Mode’ for the Model…

Drako Motors announced its next vehicle: the Drako Dragon, a new hypercar in an SUV format that can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds and still deliver on luxury. Our first introduction to Drako was back in 2019 when the company unveiled the Drako GTE, a limited-production all-electric supercar with insane specs. The San Jose-based company was founded by Dean Drako, better known as the co-founder and CEO of Barracuda Networks, and Shiv Sikand, an electrical engineer and co-founder of IC Manage. They…

Some electric bicycles are for leisurely rides in the park. Some are for dropping off the kids at school or picking up groceries. Some are for budget-friendly alternative methods of transportation. The C3STROM ASTRO PRO electric bike is none of those things, and I struggle to even call it an electric “bike.” This is a powerful, full-featured electric motorbike wearing an e-bike’s clothes. C3STROM ASTRO PRO tech specs Motor: 750W rear geared hub motor Top speed: 28 mph (45 km/h) or claimed 32 mph (51.5 km/h) in…

Scientists have discovered a pulsar ripping through space at over a million miles per hour. Researchers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to image the source of the pulsar, G292.0+1.8 in 2006 and 2016 to measure the pulsar’s speed. Scientists believe this pulsar could help us better understand how pulsars accelerate to such high speeds. NASA’s Chandra Observatory could teach us how pulsars accelerate Image source: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Xi et al.; Optical: Palomar DSS2 Pulsars are one of the most…

Electric motorcycles for police use is nothing new, and the more efficient two-wheelers solve a number of issues related to high fuel costs and improved routine maintenance. Now we’re getting a first look at a particular new model known as the CFMoto 300 GT-E that is destined for use by police in China. The domestically-made electric motorcycle falls in the 300-400cc equivalent class and is intended to give Chinese motorcycle cops a quick and reliable electric ride for largely urban patrols. CFMoto says the…

When massive stars die, they don't do so quietly.Their deaths are spectacularly brilliant affairs that light up the cosmos, a supernova explosion that sends star guts punching out into space in a cloud of splendor. Meanwhile, the core of the star-that-was can linger on, collapsed into an ultra-dense neutron star or black hole.  If that explosion takes place in a certain way, it can send the collapsed core barreling across the Milky Way like a bat out of hell, at such insane velocities they can eventually punch clean out…

A new video from SpinLaunch shows you exactly what it looks like to be launched into the Earth’s atmosphere at over 1,000 miles per hour. The video is just under a minute long, and it’s astonishing to watch as SpinLaunch literally throws its payload into the atmosphere. New SpinLaunch video launches viewers into the air at over 1,000 MPH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEVD9k2GLXk SpinLaunch designed its system to slingshot small spacecraft and satellites into a low-Earth orbit. The company hopes to use…