Zero Adds Nearly 80 Miles to the Electric Motorcycle Range Mark

Zero has set a new benchmark for how far an electric motorcycle can travel, and the margin is not a small one. The run carried the machine close to 80 miles beyond the previous best, a gain of roughly 40 percent over the old figure. The attempt came with some qualifications attached, so the conditions of the ride deserve a closer look before anyone treats the distance as an everyday expectation. Even so, the figure now stands as the longest an electric motorcycle has been credited with. For riders weighing a battery-powered bike against a gasoline one, the question has always been how far it goes before it stops, and that answer just moved a long way.

With reporting from Robb Report Motors.