No road vehicle needs a 218 mph (350 km/h) top speed. No motorcycle needs to make 200 horsepower, with as much torque as a Hyundai iMax people mover. These are figures of absolute excess – and that's ...

It’s been a busy weekend for electric mobility. We knew that Lightning Motorcycles would unveil the production version of their electric superbike at the Quail Lodge event in California, and we’ve ...

Last year, a man named Carlin Dunne raced an electric motorcycle in the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. He reached the summit in a blistering 10 minutes flat, handily beating his closest ...

The electric Lightning LS-218 remains to this day the fastest street legal production motorcycle on the planet. But not for long. Tired of hearing how the track-only Kawasaki H2R managed to beat it by ...

Lightning Motorcycles intends to pull the wraps off its newest machine, touted LS-218 in honor of the 218 mph (350.7 km/h) top speed the prototype it is based on reached at the Bonneville Salt Flats ...

Charles has been in the industry for 19 years now, and has worked with brands such as Autocar India, Overdrive, Motoring World, CarWale, BikeWale and Powerdrift. He has more experience reviewing cars, ...

Electric motorcycles have made remarkable progress in the last decade, transforming from quirky, short-range experiments into fully capable machines that can now stand toe-to-toe with traditional ...

Here are the first photos of the all-new Lightning LS-218. The new model is currently the fastest production electric motorcycle from the streets and was revealed at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering in ...

The world’s fastest motorcycle on record is the Dodge Tomahawk, capable of 420 miles per hour (mph). Although this is the fastest speed for a motorcycle in history, the Tomahawk was a concept vehicle ...

With a 200 horsepower electric motor and a top speed of 216 mph, the Lightning LS-218 SuperBike is not just the world’s fastest production electric motorcycle – it also holds the world land speed ...