Lightning is heading back to the Bonneville Salt Flats with unfinished business and a sharper brief than last time: build a next-generation EV platform capable of more than 600 hp and keep it stable when everything is trying to tear it apart.

Avenrà CEO Paul Cummins has told BCB he lost control of his EVO this weekend during a UK rideout that didn’t go to plan. Not a speed test or stunt attempt, just a roundabout, a diesel spill, and the kind of surface that turns grip into guesswork.

Donut are back and the latest VTT test results are in. This time the focus shifts to something a lot less glamorous than charging speed or headline power figures. It’s swelling.

Alongside its E-Clutch development for geared motorcycles, Honda now seems to be exploring what a clutch-by-wire system could look like in electric off-road machines.

Last year, we laid out a question: with more connectivity and more layers between rider and road, when does "assistance" start killing the ride? Now in 2026, AI makes that question harder to dodge. To dig into it, we sat down with industry veteran, systems specialist, and longtime AI advocate Dom Kwong to hear what he thinks AI in motorcycles looks like.

Donut’s latest episode moves away from the Verge TS Pro and into something much more everyday: retrofit potential. This time, the team built a swappable battery demonstrator to explore what happens when solid-state tech gets dropped into an existing vehicle platform.

The Donut Lab solid-state battery saga has been a lively run. And now, right on cue, a whistleblower steps into the spotlight. Just like that, the plot thickens.

Donut’s latest video is framed as a deep dive, and this time the focus shifts onto the battery as it sits inside the Gen 2 version of the Verge TS Pro. Rather than proving another headline claim, Donut CEO Marko Lehtimäki and CTO Ville Piippo lean into how the battery is packaged, integrated, and structured within the working motorcycle.

Donut’s latest video isn’t another test. It’s a sit-down with CEO Marko Lehtimäki, and it comes with a significantly different tone. But there are still a few signals worth paying attention to: 100,000 cycles is under scrutiny, and before we’ve seen a full production-ready version of the current battery, Donut is already talking about version 2.