https://www.teslarati.com/electric-motorcycle-energica-sales-2022/
One of the comments indicated the poster would buy an electric bike when he could do 200 miles @ 80mph. I don't think there's more than a dozen or so ICE models across all manufacturers that can do that and most of them are touring bikes that are physically larger and weigh more than any of the Energica line. Even my Triumph Trophy and BMW R1200RT would/will only get around 160 miles or so at a steady 80mph.
Sometimes I think the nay sayers set unrealistic benchmark just to be difficult.
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I've made similar comments in this forum many times and I stand by them.
Plenty of bikes do >200mi at 80mph, as long as they have a basic fairing and a 20L fuel tank; my current ICE bike, a Yamaha Tracer 900. does 360km / 224mi at 90 mph, on a a 18L tank. With panniers and a top case.
And it's hardly a heavyweight tourer, weighing in at 210kg / 463lbs wet. In fact, actual tourers usually have measly range because of gigantic curb weight (Goldwings are completely unfit-for-purpose, as many models of the past few decades can only legally carry ~40kg beyond two average US adults + basic safety gear).
The Yamaha TDM900 allrounder a friend had until recently did 400km+ on its tank at the same speed.
When I graduated from 400cc bikes to middleweights in the early 1990s, the rule-of-thumb was "for day- or multiday road trips, the minimum range is 200mi at motorway speeds (75-80mph)"
The stupid trend in the past 10 years to bad-aero naked bikes with 14L tanks isn't for actual riders.
The reason is simple:
To be able to join a group or club ride, the basic req is:
-- Ride ~100-125mi "administrative" motorway riding at 140 km/h, to get from the crowded, flat center of the country to the actual riding roads;
-- Ride ~150-200mi of sweepers/twisties in the mountains, at speeds ranging from 40mph to 70mph (mostly 50-60mph);
-- Ride ~100-125mi back home on the motorway, ditto at 140 km/h.
This is the case here, despite having a small country, and was no different when I lived in Boston in the early 1990s.
That's a total of up to 350-450mi / 500-650km of riding in a day.
Such trips typically include a long (1hr) lunch stop, during which one could DC-charge... If there were any DC charging stations along scenic roads, which there aren't hereabouts. None whatsoever.
Public AC L2 chargers are also rare-to-nonexistent in sparsely populated areas, where the good riding roads are (they're almost all in urban/suburban shopping malls here).
If an e-motorcycle could do 200mi at the required speed, I would be able to do a shortish day trips alone or with a couple of BEV-owning friends, charging twice at 12kW / 45min at public chargers en route (assuming the bike can maintain 12kW @230AC for the duration).
Any group ride with an ICE bike would still be out.
But, that's very far away, let alone at any reasonable weight (~220kg) and the e-motorcycle manufacturers don't even seem to be focusing on good aero at this point.
So, until BEV motorcycles can do 200mi at 80mph, they're only good for commuting or offroading if you can tow them to a legal ofroad area.
They're not an option for me or anyone I know for general use/touring/sport-touring/adventure-touring (noone here can afford to own 2 motorcycles), and the world sales numbers seem to bear that.
