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    Video: Lightning Motorcycles raises land speed record to 215.960 mph, starts taking orders
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    Rider Paul Thede with Lightning SuperBike in LSR clothing – Click above to watch video after the jump
    There's just no satisfying certain people's need for speed. While some might have been content with shattering the electric motorcycle land speed record (LSR) at a Southern California ...

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    206.079 MPH! Lightning Motorcycles sets electric motorcycle land speed record at Bonneville
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    Rider Paul Thede with Lightning Motorcycles bike in with APS-Ω LSR configuration
    Lightning Motorcycles has just demolished the electric motorcycle land speed record (LSR) with a set of Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) certified runs averaging 206.079 miles per hour. Wearing a ...

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    KillaJoule, daughter of Killacycle, to take on Bonneville Salt Flats
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    Eva Håkansson, whose ElectroCat set a record earlier this year climbing Pikes Peak, is preparing to assault the land speed record for electric motorcycles on the Bonneville Salt Flats this Wednesday with her newest creation, the KillaJoule. This two-wheeled streamliner is not only encoded ...

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    Lightning Motors set AMA / FIM land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, bests Motoczysz
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    Lightning Motors, with some time on its hands between winning the TTXGP North American championship and competing in the TTXGP Grand Final at Albacete, Spain in October, returned to the Bonneville Salt Flats to take part in the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials in an attempt to get itself an official ...

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    BYU electric land speed record attempt ends upside-down [w/video]
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    BYU Electric Blue Streamliner on the Bonneville Salt Flats – Click above to watch a video after the break
    Students at Brigham Young University (BYU) have been working for years to build a car with which to set a record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the E1 category (made up of electric ...

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    Lightning Motorcycles hits 166 miles per hour at Bonneville
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    Lightning Motorcycles at Bonneville - Click above for high-res image gallery
    Suddenly, we've got a competition on our hands. While it didn't seem likely that any other electric motorcycle manufacturers would even attempt to top Mission Motors' recent 150-plus mile per hour record run for a ...

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    WIRED NextFest Report: Ohio State's 300+ mph electric car
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    The very first exhibit just beyond the turnstiles at WIRED's NextFest was Ohio State's 31-foot long, 2-foot wide electric car named the Buckeye Bullet. Its claim to fame: the fastest electric car in the world. In May 2000, a group of engineering students at Ohio State began building an electric ...

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    JCB Dieselmax breaks own land-speed record, shoots to 328 mph
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    That's one fast diesel. And the JCB Dieselmax is even faster now that it has taken the FIA international land speed record for a diesel-powered vehicle with a speed of 328.767 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah yesterday. Just last week, the JCB Dieselmax's world speed record was 317.021. The ...

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    Diesel land speed record
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    A UK based construction equipment manufacturer will attempt to break the diesel land speed record this summer at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, according to PR Newswire. The engine they will be using, claimed to be the world’s most powerful diesel engine, produces 150 bhp per liter, which ...

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