Press Release by Torque PR, London.

 December 9, 2010 

ELECTRIC SUPERBIKE TO TAKE ON WORLD’S FINEST GASOLINE RACING MOTORCYCLES

• World’s most powerful and sophisticated electric superbike to make history taking on established gasoline race bikes on January 9, 2010 at Auto Club Speedway in California
• Bike’s debut track appearance on December 15, 2010 at Infineon Raceway, Sonoma California for a private test and media day.
• Bike will become the world’s most powerful road racing motorcycle, exceeding the power of a MotoGP bike

The world’s most powerful and sophisticated electric superbike will make history on January 9, 2010 at the Auto Club Speedway in California, as the first electric bike to go head to head against conventional gasoline powered race bikes in a professionally organized roadrace.

The extraordinary machine, developed by SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing in the USA, is the world’s most powerful and technically advanced electric superbike and which by February, 2011, will become the most powerful road racing motorcycle of any kind being actively campaigned.

Chip Yates, the bike’s rider and owner of SWIGZ Racing says: “We have to thank WERA Motorcycle Roadracing for inviting us into their series to make history with this news. Our electric motorcycle will compete head on with real racing superbikes such as the Ducati 1198 and KTM RC8 as well as other established manufacturers, and we expect to work hard to show the world that electric technology can achieve laptime parity with gasoline superbikes. We’re not going on track to make up the numbers; we’re going out to compete in order to raise our game and catch up to these gasoline guys.”

The news comes in the light of the bike’s recent exclusion from the FIM and TTXGP Championships for electric motorcycles, which has imposed a significantly lower maximum weight limit of 250kgs for the 2011 season. “Our bike weighs in at 266kgs right now”, says Yates. “Clearly, these championships are more concerned with promoting scooter development, and our bike is so much faster than the electric competition that we feel far more inclined to push our bike’s unique technology platform forward in the ultimate competitive environment of gasoline bike racing.”

The SWIGZ Racing machine has a power to weight ratio that is slightly better than 600cc gasoline bikes, and will begin the 2011 season by competing in the WERA Pirelli Sportsman Heavyweight Twins Superbike class where its power to weight ratio puts it in the middle of the field. To be competitive against these heavyweight twin cylinder superbikes going forward, the bike will benefit from a more than 20% increase to its current 194 horsepower after this first race weekend in January.

Yates continues: “Our scheduled power increase will make our electric superbike more powerful than a MotoGP bike and will bring us extremely close to power to weight parity with the best 1,000cc Japanese superbikes. Those two facts are a simply outstanding reflection of the potential in electric power.”

Ahead of the WERA Pirelli Sportsman Series race weekend on January 9th, the bike has been invited by Infineon Raceway, a motorsports leader in green performance and sustainability, to be put through its paces at race speeds for the first time ever on December 15th. Chip and the SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing USA team will enjoy the private use of the world-class Infineon road course from 8:30am to 4:30pm and media and the public are welcomed to attend.

SWIGZ Racing will soon announce additional race dates where the electric superbike can be seen competing directly against gasoline bikes in the WERA championship series, that will include Miller Motorsports Park, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and other major venues across the USA.

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About WERA Motorcycle Roadracing, Inc:  WERA is one of the oldest (37 years old) and largest (over 3,000 licensed racers) national sanctioning bodies conducting motorcycle races at road courses across the United States.  Headlined by the WERA/Michelin National Challenge Series, WERA sanctions races at iconic U.S. venues including Barber Motorsports Park, Virginia International Raceway, Miller Motorsports Park, and Road Atlanta to name a few.  In addition to the WERA/Michelin National Challenge Series, WERA’s professionally organized roadracing championship series include the Pirelli/WERA Sportsman Series, the Bridgestone/WERA National Endurance Championship, the Grand National Finals, and seven regional championship series across the United States. (www.wera.com)

About SWIGZ.COM:  Designed and built in Orange County, California, SWIGZ^® is the world’s first dual hydration sports bottle allowing athletes to carry two drinks of their choice in a single bottle during workouts.  SWIGZ^® sports bottles can be purchased at www.swigz.com.

About Chip Yates:  Before turning pro fairly late in life, Chip Yates was a Boeing executive in charge of transitioning advanced aerospace technology and patents to other industries such as automotive for racing and OEM applications.  He personally holds 7 U.S. patents on automotive drivetrain and other technologies and is an engineer with a master’s degree in business from USC.  Chip has raced in the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike series and the FIM World Supersport series and owns SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing, an extreme-performance electric vehicle consultancy in Orange County, California.  www.chipyates.com

Chip’s Electric Superbike Sponsors:  SWIGZ.COM Dual Hydration System (www.swigz.com), Ohlins USA (www.ohlinsusa.com), Yoyodyne (www.yoyodyneti.com), McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP (www.mckennalong.com), Swift Engineering (www.swiftengineering.com), MoTeC Systems USA – West (www.motec.com), Dainese (www.dainese.com), SolarReserve (www.solarreserve.com), Manzanita Micro (www.manzanitamicro.com), MicroStrain (www.microstrain.com), UQM (www.uqm.com), and Performance Machine (www.performancemachine.com)

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World’s Most Powerful and Technically Advanced Electric Superbike Excluded by the TTXGP from Racing in 2011

SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing was one of the founding teams in the TTXGP series, but was not consulted on the rules change that now forbids bikes weighing over 550 lbs.  SWIGZ team pro rider Chip Yates has publicly announced in numerous forums his superbike weight of 585 lbs.  Although the SWIGZ team has been working hard to reduce the weight of the bike, the lack of rules stability combined with the TTXGP and Mavizen conflict of interest make the TTXGP an unattractive series for a team trying to develop an extreme performance superbike.

Not only do TTXGP organizers make and change the rules that govern electric motorcycle racing at their own discretion, they also manufacture, promote and sell their own electric motorcycle under the Mavizen brand name that is eligible for racing in their series.  The Mavizen TTX02 has an advertised weight of 350 lbs, produces between 54 hp and 94 hp with its two electric motors and has not been excluded from racing under this new weight reduction rule change.  The sales slogan for the Mavizen TTX02 bike is: “Entering the TTXGP Just Got Simpler”.

CHIP YATES: “The TTXGP officials knew our bike weight and made this surprise rule change anyway.  I contacted them to protest, and they could not provide a single reason why they lowered the weight and they told me that it would not affect any of their current competitors except me.  We have to conclude then, that the TTXGP series is catering towards manufactured electric bikes in the scooter category putting out between 50-90 horsepower.  No race fan would confuse these with a legitimate superbike, which is what we are developing to give people something to get excited about.  Too many electric vehicles are slow and boring, and perpetuate the myth that electric vehicles can’t be powerful and exciting.  Our 194 horsepower, liquid-cooled UQM Technologies electric motor makes 295 ft/lbs of torque the instant you open the throttle and can be seen smoking its tire at www.youtube.com/chipyates”

The SWIGZ.COM Team is currently engaged in discussions with numerous event organizers and sanctioning bodies to set the 2011 schedule for racing and showcasing the electric superbike in front of real race fans and electric vehicle supporters around the world.  On the engineering front, dyno testing, software development, and battery pack testing is ongoing and the superbike is expected to begin track testing in December, 2010.

Electric Superbike Sponsors:  SWIGZ.COM Dual Hydration System (www.swigz.com), Ohlins USA (www.ohlinsusa.com), Yoyodyne (www.yoyodyneti.com), McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP (www.mckennalong.com), Swift Engineering (www.swiftengineering.com), MoTeC Systems USA – West (www.motec.com), Dainese (www.dainese.com), SolarReserve (www.solarreserve.com), Manzanita Micro (www.manzanitamicro.com), MicroStrain (www.microstrain.com), UQM (www.uqm.com), and Performance Machine (www.performancemachine.com)

About SWIGZ.COM:  Designed and built in Orange County, California, SWIGZ^® is the world’s first dual hydration sports bottle allowing athletes to carry two drinks of their choice in a single bottle during workouts.  SWIGZ^® sports bottles can be purchased at www.swigz.com.

About Chip Yates:  Before turning pro fairly late in life, Chip Yates was a Boeing executive in charge of transitioning advanced aerospace technology and patents to other industries such as automotive for racing and OEM applications.  He personally holds 7 U.S. patents on automotive drivetrain and other technologies and is an engineer with a master’s degree in business from USC.  Chip has raced in the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike series and the FIM World Supersport series.  www.chipyates.com

THE WORLD’S MOST TECHNICALLY ADVANCED ELECTRIC SUPERBIKE TO BE UNVEILED AT THE SAN JOSE BATTERY SHOW IN OCTOBER

Chip Yates, the American bike racer and engineering guru, is to officially debut his awesome electric superbike at The Battery Show, which takes place at the San Jose Convention Center, California on October 5^th  to 7^th, 2010.

The superbike, which will compete in next year’s FIM ePower and TTXGP Championships for electric motorcycles, has pushed the boundaries of electric vehicle engineering to new heights. Although a pure race bike, major OEMs and the wider EV industry are eager to see the bike in detail to fully understand some of the cutting edge technology that Yates and his Swigz.com Pro Racing team have developed.  Having created the bike in complete secrecy, with 194 horsepower and 295 ft/lbs of torque, the motorcycle is easily the most powerful electric superbike in the world and represents a seismic advancement in any previously seen technology.

Yates says of the project: “Developing a bike such as this is a major undertaking and we have had to push the boundaries of what the industry has so far been able to achieve. Unlike a car, a bike cannot simply take numerous high capacity batteries on board to improve performance and range, so we have had to harness highly advanced technology, including a bespoke KERS System (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), to make the bike what it is. The EV industry is looking at this bike with interest, and is increasingly looking to us for consultancy on other EV projects.”

Although images of the bike have been issued in advance of the show, the team will unveil details of its highly secretive KERS system at the show, shortly after certain protective patents have been registered.

James Reader, the show’s founder, says: “It’s an absolute privilege to have Chip and his team at the show. Showcasing this kind of ground-breaking technology is exactly what the show is all about, and the presence of the bike will be an enormous bonus to the attending press and visitors”.

Visitors can visit the Swigz.com Pro Racing team at booth 2600, and the Chip Yates himself will be on hand to greet people and explain the technology and highlight the challenges and his team of aerospace and race engineers have overcome during the development process.

For more information or to register for a press pass, please visit: http://www.thebatteryshow.com/press_reg.php

For information on the Swigz superbike, please visit: www.chipyates.com

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Orange County Race Team to Unveil World’s Most Powerful and Technically Advanced Electric Roadracing Motorcycle at The Battery Show

ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. August 27, 2010  --  SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing USA announced today that after nine months of secretive R&D, fabrication and testing, their zero-emissions electric superbike will be on full display to the public at the San Jose Convention Center, CA, USA for The Battery Show and The Battery Technology Expo, booth 2600, during October 5-7, 2010.

The unveiling of this racebike is significant to the electric vehicle (“EV”) industry for several reasons:

• At 194 horsepower and 295 ft/lbs of torque, it is the most powerful electric roadracing superbike in the world and represents a “maximum performance” development platform.
• With 4 high-speed, on-board networks processing more than 150 channels of data for its proprietary race finishing software, torque control, regenerative braking control, wheelie and traction control, it is the most technically advanced electric superbike in the world.
• Equipped with a patent-pending system to harvest energy lost during braking, it is the only electric superbike in the world with a real KERS* system and as such is designed to advance the state-of-the-art in EV battery technology and maximize vehicle efficiency.

The inventor and lead designer is American pro motorcycle racer Chip Yates, who will be on hand to greet the media and the public and explain the challenges and triumphs he and his small but capable team of aerospace and race engineers** have experienced in developing this electric powertrain and technology showcase vehicle from scratch.

*KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System)

** Aerospace engineer Ben Ingram (MIT), Electrical engineer Robert Ussery (Georgia Tech), Race engineer Chris Norris (Swift Engineering), Race engineer James Nero (MoTeC)

The Battery Show Websites:  www.thebatteryshow.com and www.batterytechexpo.com

Electric Superbike Sponsors:  SWIGZ.COM Dual Hydration System (www.swigz.com), Ohlins USA (www.ohlinsusa.com), Yoyodyne (www.yoyodyneti.com), McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP (www.mckennalong.com), Swift Engineering (www.swiftengineering.com), MoTeC Systems USA – West (www.motec.com), Dainese (www.dainese.com), SolarReserve (www.solarreserve.com), Manzanita Micro (www.manzanitamicro.com), MicroStrain (www.microstrain.com), and UQM (www.uqm.com).

About SWIGZ.COM:  Designed and built in Orange County, California, SWIGZ^® is the world’s first dual hydration sports bottle allowing athletes to carry two drinks of their choice in a single bottle during workouts.  SWIGZ^® sports bottles can be purchased at www.swigz.com.

About Chip Yates:  Before turning pro fairly late in life, Chip Yates was a Boeing executive in charge of transitioning advanced aerospace technology and patents to other industries such as automotive for racing and OEM applications.  He personally holds 7 U.S. patents on automotive drivetrain and other technologies and is an engineer with a master’s degree in business from USC.  Chip has raced in the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike series and the FIM World Supersport series.  www.chipyates.com