Tag: electric

Picture it: two permanent-magnet synchronous motors sending 21 horsepower and 30 pound-feet of torque to tank-style tracks, a 6 kWh battery pack with integrated heating that stores enough juice for 4 or 5 hours of continuous operation, and a dry weight of 460 pounds and single-handed steering. The Zisel is truly one of the most unique ATVs being manufactured today, and […] More »

Phoenix-based TOMCAR Holding Company, LLC (TOMCAR LLC), which produces high-end all-terrain vehicles for military, commercial and personal use, is celebrating its 25th year poised for radical growth. For the first time in the company’s history, TOMCAR LLC’s revolutionary electrical vehicle technology will now available for commercial use, making it the only advanced, high-performance 100% electrical […] More »

Just because Elon Musk beat everyone else to the name Tesla when branding his electric powered auto company, that doesn’t mean a new electric powered UTV manufacturer was totally out of luck. Meet Nikola Motor Company (keep in mind Tesla’s first name was Nikola and it all starts to make sense); a brand that claims […] More »

The auto industry has accepted them long ago but by and large, the off-road market hasn’t been quite so quick to adopt the gas/ electric hybrid concept. According to Fort Worth Texas’s HuntVe, that’s about to change. The company offers a whole line of side-by-side and UTVs that come in powertrain trims from gas/ electric […] More »

We love modern ATVs and UTVs and, being members of the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” school of reasoning, find very little to complain about while browsing the 2016 model offerings (aside from perhaps the lack of 450cc race machines of late). However, this is nearly 2016 and many of us like to […] More »

Have you ever not even realized you had something that was terribly antiquated until you replaced with a modern version? Case in point- generators. Your ATV Connection editors have been using a gas generator circa 1986 these past many years. Then suddenly we had an opportunity to put the Honda EU2000i through its paces and […] More »

When we use the term “ATV” around the office, it usually elicits images of four knobby tires, rider-forward seating, controls borrowed from motorcycles and so on. “UTV” or “side-by-side” are terms that bring up a different set of mental images. But the Horizon from Outrider USA is a machine that has even us scratching our […] More »