Zero Motorcycles has introduced a new police version to their electric motorcycle line. No information about pricing, and it doesn’t appear to offer anything their other bikes don’t (beyond the police-specific lights), but it’s good to see them going after a practical fleet market.

In a very different corner of the electric motorcycle universe, an Austrian company called Biiista has revealed a fanciful new line of electric bikes which look like nothing so much as giant, friendly beetles. Hub-center steering up front eliminates the traditional forks, and a smooth, curvy skin whose shape is reminiscent of art deco covers the battery pack, but it’s the mirrors mounted on stalks so long they look like antennae that really seal the effect. No price or other practical information available yet, of course.