page_title: Electric motorcycles and scooters
section_title: Performance
hierarchical_section_title: Electric motorcycles and scooters / Electric vs. gasoline machines / Performance
caption_attribution_description: English: Electric Cowboy, Brandon Nozaki Miller on the Bonneville Salt Flats before his record breaking landspeed event in 2012. He is sitting on his 2012 Production Zero Motorcycles ZF6.
context_page_description: Electric motorcycles and scooters are plug-in electric vehicles with two or three wheels. The electricity is stored on board in a rechargeable battery, which drives one or more electric motors. Electric scooters have a step-through frame.
context_section_description: Electric and gasoline powered motorcycles and scooters of the same size and weight are roughly comparable in performance. In August 2013 Road & Track evaluated a high-end electric motorcycle as faster and better handling than any conventionally powered bike. Electric machines have better 0 to 60 acceleration, since they develop full torque immediately, and without a clutch the torque is instantly available.
caption: Brandon Nozaki Miller on the first production electric motorcycle to break 161 km/h (100 mph), a 2012 Zero S ZF6 at Bonneville Salt Flats (2012)
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