As this BBC video demonstrates, the all-electric LIT Motors C1 electric motorcycle is an amazing feat of engineering. Using gyroscopes and electric motors to keep its balance, the C1 really can't be ...

Building an automotive startup is never easy, especially when the product offered by that company defies easy description. Lit Motors has been steadily developing its self-balancing ...

Antony Ingram March 26, 2014 Comment Now! Human beings are curious beasts. Tell them something outlandish, even something backed by scientific method, and they'll try and prove it wrong anyway.

It's not so much that certain designers and many startups hate automobiles, but rather that they've openly declared war on them out of a reasoning that cars have outgrown their utility and overstayed ...

Even though the most optimistic of us hoped to see the Lit Motors C-1 self-balancing electric bike rolling on the street in 2014, it looks like the development of the final pre-production prototype is ...

Lit Motors is using the placeholder name ”C-1” for their electric vehicle that can be best described as a self-balancing motorcycle-car hybrid. It is a two-wheeled fully enclosed vehicle with car-like ...

It’s been nearly five years since Lit Motors unveiled its C-1 Auto-Balancing Electric Vehicle (AEV), which was slated to go on sale in 2013. The San Francisco-based company has yet to put it into ...

Lit Motors' much-hyped C-1 prototype lies in pieces in the back of the startup's South of Market offices in San Francisco. With green and red wires protruding and the doors taken off the frame, the ...

On the same day British sportscar maker McLaren denied it was in buyout talks with Apple, the iPhone maker is said to be mulling a takeover bid for a two-wheeled-transportation startup. Following ...

San Francisco based Lit Motors presents their fully electric motorcycle the C1. Autopia Editor Damon Lavrinc takes a look at a prototype vehicle that may revolutionize how we commute.

Last month, we shared reports that Lit Motors, a small startup best known for developing self-balancing two-wheel vehicles, became an acquisition target for several major companies, including BMW. In ...