Here’s one way to deal with range anxiety. Zero Motorcycles just announced that its DS model recently set a Guinness World Record after running 436.5 km, or 271.2 miles, on a single battery charge. That figure, which is well over the bike’s advertised range, didn’t just beat the previous mark—it demolished it. Unsurprisingly, Zero’s record attempt was a meticulously planned affair. Three riders using three production-spec DS bikes rode over mountain passes, through villages, and on country roads from Les Claux, Vars, in the French Alps to the Mediterranean coast with the goal of beating the previous record of 310.7 km, or 193 miles, on a single charge. All three of the electric two-wheelers were able to beat the previous mark, but it was the DSR/X equipped with the company’s Power Tank add-on that set the record. In traveling 271.2 miles on a single charge, this bike, which was ridden..
