{"id":525063,"date":"2010-04-12T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1346\/yamaha-to-develop-electric-bikes.html"},"modified":"2010-04-12T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:41:00","slug":"yamaha-to-develop-electric-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525063","title":{"rendered":"Yamaha to develop electric bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"yamaha\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/yamaha.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yamaha, one of the best-known names in motorcycles, is finally entering the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/automobiles\/2668\">electric bike<\/a> fray.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yamaha-motor.co.jp\/global\/news\/2010\/0402\/stock.html\">The company has announced<\/a> that it will be selling shares in order to raise $812 million to go towards developing low-cost, all-electric motorcycles and &#8220;motor-assisted&#8221; bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>So far, electric bikes haven&#8217;t really taken off &#8212; they&#8217;re expensive and haven&#8217;t had that &#8220;it&#8217; factor &#8212; but not many of the big players have been designing them, until now.\u00a0 With Yamaha&#8217;s presence in the market, electric motorcycles may make a name for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha won&#8217;t be spending all of that money just on all-electric motorcycles, though it will all go to cleaning up the business.\u00a0 The company&#8217;s R&#038;D team will also be working on more efficient engines for its bikes and boats.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6310XC20100402\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yamaha-motor.com\/sport\/products\/modelhome\/7\/0\/home.aspx\">Yamaha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/6dkq2rz8nsk\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yamaha, one of the best-known names in motorcycles, is finally entering the electric bike fray.\u00a0 The company has announced that it will be selling shares in order to raise $812 million to go towards developing low-cost, all-electric motorcycles and &#8220;motor-assisted&#8221; bicycles. So far, electric bikes haven&#8217;t really taken off &#8212; they&#8217;re expensive and haven&#8217;t had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3950,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}