Electric Superbike

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Julz

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Has anyone seen this? I think it's pretty cool although I'm still 50/50 on electric bikes. I mean isn't part of the fun listening to the rumble of the engine. Another fun factor of the bike is switching to different gears and by the looks of it this bike is an automatic? I think it's a cool concept though...how bout a hybrid bike?

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xflying said:
i checked their website, they said this bike is not available for sale :(
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They're not the ones to manufacture it. They're looking for a company to take it to production I guess.
 
Cant wait for these to arrive, but i get a feeling these will cost more than the average car.
 
No range on these things, and no quick way to top them up. If you want to put around down and get to work, they are fine, anyone who likes to tour, or do any kinda of travel will not like these as they just are not practical.
 
Sweet look and design, but will it ever look like that just like concept cars? probably not. :(
Will it see daylight? probably not. Look at the Brammo Empulse which was due LOOOOONG ago. Sucker still on "pre-order".
I doubt these electric bikes will go anywhere till battery tech sky rockets from alien tech or something.
 
As a track bike with easily replacable batteries, they may find a home. As a street bike it needs alien tech batteries. In either use, the fun/price quotient would be much much worse than a conventional bike.

Years ago the Aprilia Mana (750cc w auto transmission) was tested on a track and with the vast majority of the riders it was destroying bikes with conventional transmissions. You don't realize how much time is lost around a track by being in the wrong gear, or when you are between gears and not accelerating. A electric bike with mountains of easily modulated torque and an automatic transmission (with properly setup suspension) may be untouchable at the track.
 
Didnt they say something like 160MILES range? 160 Miles and almost 260KM. 260KM is about half a tank of the average car which is plenty for daily commutes. Sure its not enough for a tour around the country but i dont think thats their userbase.
 
I think it's a great idea and I would definitely like to see it go forward. However as all new technologies (and our electric car experiment has shown) these will be toys for the select few celebrities or people with enough $ to have it because no one else has them.

The first few years they'll be extremely expensive and prohibitive. As a commuter bike, it would be awesome, especially if you can remove the battery and charge it while you're at the office. With the 260k range, that would basically be double of my commute so I'd love it. For touring, well I guess additional batteries would have to be hauled around.

But with prices of gas continually rising, well then it may see the light of day faster than we expect. I sure hope so.
 
Jag_V4Ape said:
Sweet look and design, but will it ever look like that just like concept cars? probably not. :(
Will it see daylight? probably not. Look at the Brammo Empulse which was due LOOOOONG ago. Sucker still on "pre-order".
I doubt these electric bikes will go anywhere till battery tech sky rockets from alien tech or something.
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Look at the KTM RC8. An off road company built a superbike and it looks like a superbike. There is nothing radical about the design of this bike, it could easily look exactly like this if it hits production.

The issue is that it would be ridiculously expensive until they get some kind production run going and that likely wouldn't be until the second generation or even later. Even commuter oriented versions with cheaper motors and less performance would wind up being more expensive than equivalent petrol models. Look at the Nissan Leaf, $40000 for an electric car while the Versa costs $12000. Expect a 600cc equivalent to cost around the same, you might get a 250 in the $20000 range. Also wait until you see the price of the batteries and the replacement interval.
 
It certainly gets more mileage than my bike. I can get 150 km before the gas light goes off. So ya it's got range....who takes a superbike for touring anyways? These type of bikes are meant for track or to play around with twisties. Let's face it...we're at an era where everything is going "green". Is the technology there?...not quite but it's improving.
 
wonderings said:
No range on these things, and no quick way to top them up. If you want to put around down and get to work, they are fine, anyone who likes to tour, or do any kinda of travel will not like these as they just are not practical.
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no **** Sherlock...whose really gonna travel and tour on superbike anyways? These things will easily last a track weekend on a full charge...
 
Anyone else disturbed by how much Jay's chin sticks out from his helmet? It's absurd!
 
...I heard his helmet is custom made just for his chin.
 
Batteries are making leaps in R&D... affordable? not yet.
 
Years ago the Aprilia Mana (750cc w auto transmission) was tested on a track and with the vast majority of the riders it was destroying bikes with conventional transmissions. You don't realize how much time is lost around a track by being in the wrong gear, or when you are between gears and not accelerating. A electric bike with mountains of easily modulated torque and an automatic transmission (with properly setup suspension) may be untouchable at the track.
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somebody gets it ;-)
You should see the current 850 !!!!

Range is the killer not torque and when you lose the shifting it's a whole new world of riding. Ask any Burgman 650 rider. :D
The new crop of sport automatics are really good -
 
I think it's funny cuz everyone says gas is getting so expensive and eventually we're all gonna be driving electric or "green" vehicals in the future...but isn't anyone worried that companies like Toronto hydro are just gonna jack the price of electricity up to compensate for people's new disposable income from not gasing their vehicals anymore?

It'll be better for the environment but corporate greed will make sure we still pay a pretty penny to charge our vehicals.
 
Processing enough heavy metals to electrify the world's auto transportation network is going to take a horrendous toll on the environment, worse than is already the case. Maybe James Cameron's asteroid mining venture will help, although the initial focus of that project is precious metals (gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, etc).

Electricity costs will rise as demand rises, but that's a given. New generating stations, reactors and mass installations of wind/solar turbines won't come cheaply. Still, not having street level smog, which is where we live most of our lives, is a net gain I think.

It took about a century of sustained development to give us the ICE vehicles of today. Electrical vehicles will probably need at least half that to become a viable market alternative.
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