Although electric vehicles can offer greater efficiency and reduced running cost in comparison to traditional vehicles, these benefits are reduced when existing EV technology is applied to motorcycles. Motorcycles lack the aerodynamic efficiency and inertia that allows electric cars to match or surpass the performance of internal combustion engine vehicles, particularly at cruising speeds. However, in low speed and city traffic, electric motorcycles come into their own. Without wind resistance to overcome, electric motors consume less energy to maintain speed, and regenerative braking can recoup as much as 70% of the energy used to move off from a standing start, for instance between traffic lights. In use cases such as these, electric motorcycles can in actually surpass their stated range by as much as 40%.