The folks at Brammo is leading the commercial race to affordable and practical electric motorcycles. The Enertia has had lots of positive press, a great diary of their journey to DC to postalize their efforts, and even Jay Leno has taken possession and touting it on his website.

I'm pretty excited about this bit of news:

Price has dropped from $11,995 to $7,995.

If knocking $4K off the price wasn't good enough, there's a Federal tax incentive that will lower the price down another $800. To a total of $7,195, that's pretty damn good.

That nets you a bike that's priced the same as 750cc cruisers and lower end of the standard/street bike lineups from Japanese, European and American ICE manufacturers. Making the temptation to go electric that much more appealing.

It's always been my problem with current Hybrid cars, if you subtract the ecological factors, a Prius starts at $22,400. My new car was $12,000. You can buy a heck of a lot of gas for the difference of $10,400. With my car's MPG, if I used the $10,400 I saved and spent it solely on 89 Octane getting 25MPG, I could go over 110K miles!

Now I'm a practical dude, I commute less than 16 miles a day, I make short trips… electric vehicles make sense for my transportation needs. Now that the price is realistic for what you get, I could go for this.

No more valve clearance checks, oil changes, plugs or clutch. My lazy side is coaxing me to find a spare seven large in green.