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The National Motor Freight Classification ( NMFC) is a North American voluntary standard that provides a comparison of commodities moving in interstate, intrastate and international commerce via freight shipment. The standard is developed and maintained by the Freight Classification Development Council (FCDC) and published by the National Motor ...
Type. Outdoor. Electric motorsport is a category of motor sport that consists of the racing of electric powered vehicles for competition, either in all-electric series, or in open-series against vehicles with different powertrains. Very early in the history of automobiles, electric cars held several performance records over internal combustion ...
Allan Abbott, a cycling enthusiast and motorcycle racer, elevated the motor-paced bicycle speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats, reaching 223 km/h (139 mph) in 1973. John Howard, Olympic cyclist and Ironman triathlon winner, reset the record to 244 km/h (152 mph), also at the Bonneville Salt Flats, on 20 July 1985.
TT Zero. MotoCzysz E1pc, the winning bike of the first TT Zero race in 2010. TT Zero was an electric motorsport event introduced for the 2010 Isle of Man TT races – replaced the similar TTXGP race as a 1-lap (37.733 miles) circuit of the Snaefell Mountain Course. The TT Zero event as an officially sanctioned Isle of Man TT race is for racing ...
In 2012, Jim Higgins rode the street-legal Mission Motors' Mission R at the Sonoma Raceway quarter-mile drag strip and set a National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA) street-legal electric motorcycle record for the SMC/A3 class with a time of 10.602 at 197.26 km/h (122.57 mph). [32]
The best folding electric bikes, chosen by our gear experts, for zipping from city streets to train to work or anywhere else. Ride 'em out, then pack 'em up. Zip Around Town and Save Storage Space ...
Signal speeds. Federal regulators limit the speed of trains with respect to the signaling method used. [ 1] Passenger trains are limited to 59 mph (95 km/h) and freight trains to 49 mph (79 km/h) on track without block signal systems. (See dark territory .) Trains without "an automatic cab signal, automatic train stop or automatic train control ...
UCI race classifications. The Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies races according to a rating scale. The rating is represented by a code made of two or three parts and indicates both the type or style of race (the first part), and its importance or difficulty (the second ...