Electric Motorcycle

[gregory]

Didn't see if this was posted before.

Clicky

 

[Road_Runner]

You sit pretty low. Better put a VERY LOUD HORN on it.

The problem with electric motorcycle is range. They say 200 miles in the article. I say BS. Zerocycles says 114 mile range. It was tested in Cycle or Motorcyclist recently I forget which, and they discovered that if you go freeway speeds the range is somewhere around 1/2 that.

In my mind until battery technology imporves, electric two wheelers will be an impractical novelty. Ditto for electric cars.

 

[mferriter]

The problem with electric motorcycle is range. They say 200 miles in the article. I say BS. Zerocycles says 114 mile range. It was tested in Cycle or Motorcyclist recently I forget which, and they discovered that if you go freeway speeds the range is somewhere around 1/2 that.

Might be a bit better if they lost the gyro stabilization system. Looks like it's built so you can't put your feet down at a stop.

Didn't see if this was posted before.

Clicky

These are quite impressive credentials:

"Mr. Kim, who dropped out of Reed College and the University of California, Berkeley and later studied industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design...."

 

[majicmaker]

I think it also comes with a Plaque on the rear of it that says: Look what my life has come to. Please Run me over and Kill me Now!! :huh:

 

[mferriter]

I think it also comes with a Plaque on the rear of it that says: Look what my life has come to. Please Run me over and Kill me Now!! :huh:

It seems like a rock-solid concept:

Take something fun and cool - like riding a motorcycle - and make it boring and lame.

I can't see how it could fail.

 

[wfooshee]

You drive it, you don't ride it. It's a cage but it leans the right way in a turn. Not even remotely interested.

I use the car when I have to carry more people or stuff than I can carry on the bike. Otherwise I'm on the bike.

I wonder if they've tested this thing in Florida. Closed vehicle, no cooling..... or if there is, it's gonna steal battery range for A/C power.

I can't even come up with an application for the technology he's developing that makes sense where a closed single-seater doesn't. And it doesn't.

 

[bluesdog]

I think it also comes with a Plaque on the rear of it that says: Look what my life has come to. Please Run me over and Kill me Now!! :huh:

+1

The article sez:

...the bike is encased in a metal shell, and it is controlled like a car, with a steering wheel and foot pedals

Emphasis added. In fact it IS a car. It just happens to share a few number of characteristics of a real motorcycle: two wheels; limited cargo capacity; virtual invisibility... :blink: