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Stories tagged "Electric" from the LatestNewBike magazine.
The first real wave of premium electric motorcycles is now old enough to show up on the used market — and depreciating hard enough to reward anyone who knows what to check before signing. Here's the buyer's guide the battery, the software and the charging port actually deserve.
Priya Anand · May 20, 2026
The silent, torque-laden Zero SR/F confronts Aprilia's characterful, screaming Tuono 660 in an electric-versus-petrol naked showdown that pits instant thrust and low running costs against range, sound and value.
Priya Anand · Jan 7, 2026
Ultra Low Emission Zones have quietly reshaped how — and on what — British riders can commute, and most of us are still guessing at the details. Here is exactly what qualifies, what does not, and why the answer might already be sitting in your logbook.
Priya Anand · Oct 26, 2025
For two decades the electric motorcycle was a promise perpetually deferred; today, machines like the Zero SR/F prove the technology has stopped apologising and started out-performing the petrol bikes parked beside it.
Priya Anand · Sep 21, 2025
Strip away the ideology and the showroom sticker, and the electric-versus-petrol question comes down to arithmetic — so we ran the numbers on energy, servicing, depreciation and the true cost of every kilometre ridden.
Priya Anand · Sep 12, 2025
Range anxiety is the reflex objection to every electric motorcycle, but a week aboard a Zero SR/F suggests the fear says far more about our petrol-era habits than about the bikes themselves.
Priya Anand · Sep 3, 2025
The next ten years will decide whether electric motorcycles remain a premium curiosity or become the quiet default — and the batteries, the charging standards and the legacy brands are already telling us how it ends.
Priya Anand · Aug 25, 2025
Charging is where the electric-motorcycle dream meets the messy real world of plugs, tariffs and car-shaped bays — but bikes have one quiet advantage that most of the doom-mongering conveniently forgets.
Priya Anand · Aug 16, 2025