Snowmobiles

Long before adventure motorcycles became cool, Honda was producing a “heavy duty” minibike that was designed to be loaded up with gear and ridden almost anywhere you could imagine. A 1982 Motra is now heading to auction in Las Vegas.

Ski-doo is known for its snowmobiles. Yellowstone National Park is known for its geysers, wildlife, and herds of tourists in the summer. When you combine them both, Ski-doo and Yellowstone delivers a real bucket-list outdoor adventure experience.

Vidde has introduced its pre-series all-electric Alfa snowmobile with the bold claim that it's the cleanest snowmobile in the world. The 174-hp Alfa powers up in temperatures below -30 °F, slashing through snow for 60 miles a charge.

While many people enjoy whipping around on snowmobiles, the things are rather big and heavy compared to vehicles like dirt bikes. That's where the WS250 comes in, as it's a compact, one-passenger, stand-up snowmobile.

Back in 2018, Taiga Motors announced an all-electric snowmobile called the TS2. The company tweaked the design the following year, and expanded the model range to three. Now the first consumer-ready vehicles have rolled off the production line.

Quiet, clean electric drives have the ability to revolutionize vehicles well beyond autos. MoonBikes is bringing electric tech to the mountains, finding a space between the electric bike and the e-snowmobile with a full-throttle electric snow bike.

We've already seen kits for converting traditional bikes to ebikes, and for converting them to pedal-powered snow machines. The Electric SnowBike Kit goes a step further, by combining the two.

Part snowmobile, part sled and part drift kart, the Bobsla gives non-skiers something much more exhilarating to do on ski trips than sit by the lodge fireplace. The all-electric Tyrolean motor sleigh treads, slides and spins its way around the snow.

​Even though many outdoorsy parents may be eager to get their kids snowmobiling, a big, heavy, fast snow machine may not be the best thing to put under the control of a small child. That's where the tiny, light and relatively slow Naseka comes in. It's electric, and can be utilized year-round.

Canadian startup Taiga is on a mission to make the thrill of exploring the great outdoors more sustainable. To that end, it launched the TS2 at the weekend – an all-electric snowmobile that can zoom from standing still to 100 km/h in 3 seconds.

​It’s not every day you get to see a 500-pound snowmobile do a 5-story high, 100-foot long backflip. Minnesota native Levi LaVallee took advantage of the Superbowl circus to stage the crazy stunt over Minneapolis’ Nicollet Mall. And everything went as you'd expect.

Snowmobile and bike combinations come in all different shapes and sizes, but few are as dramatic as Joey Ruiter's new Snoped (pronounced "snow-ped"). Created as a "mash-up between art, design, fashion and lifestyle," what it may lack in conventionality​, it makes up for in style.

This is either the craziest idea to hit the snow, or one of the coolest. Austrian company Mattro's Ardenner features not one, but three snowmobile-like tracks clawing into the snow and ice to provide a great deal of forward thrust. And the coolest thing: It's all electric.

Seventeen college teams competed in the 2011 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, including a record number of electric sleds.

The Skizee is a powered tread that pushes skiers across the snow.