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 ...

High-performance electric motorcycles like the Lightning LS-218 now match or surpass gas-powered rivals in acceleration, though top speeds still favor combustion models. Advances in battery tech, ...

Lightning Motorcycle’s new electric bikes are intriguing for a number of reasons, but what has really caught our eye are their batteries. The California-based company has announced that its upcoming ...

Lightning Motorcycle has launched the world’s fastest production motorcycle – an electric – against the current crop of conventional 200hp+ sportsbikes such as the supercharged Kawasaki’s Ninja H2, ...

The Strike could be poised to make things very tough on the likes of Zero and Harley-Davidson when it launches next month. When the folks at Lightning Motorcycles announced in January that the company ...