Lightning Motorcycle

Lightning Motorcycle is an electric motorcycle company founded in 2006 by Richard Hatfield. The company focuses on developing and integrating core electric vehicle technologies for faster charging, higher efficiency, and sustained high performance. It has created the LS-218 and Strike product platforms and is developing two new products. Lightning's XFC extreme fast-charging system delivers a 20% to 80% charge in approximately 11 minutes.

Lightning Motors was founded in 2006 by Richard Hatfield. In 2006, when lithium battery technology became available, Lightning converted a Yamaha R1 race bike ("E1") to the first lithium battery electric sport bike in the world. In October 2009, Lightning broke a longstanding land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats. In 2010, Lightning won the first North American Zero Emissions Championship. In 2011, Lightning broke its own land speed record twice more and became the 1st electric motorcycle to exceed 200 mph.

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