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General Category => Electric Motorcycle News => Topic started by: Mike Werner on June 21, 2016, 03:02:13 PM
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Here's a link to a CNBC Facebook video, looking at the round the world electric motorcycle, Storm. Developed by the Dutch university, the bike is slate to go round the world in 80 days.
https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/vb.97212224368/10154409097154369/?type=2&theater (https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/vb.97212224368/10154409097154369/?type=2&theater)
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Here is another video. With all the batteries its 836lbs so no tip overs please.
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Bleh, hype over something that would have been impressive 3 years ago. Not only can you get better performance (range, speed, etc..) out of a modified 2016 Zero S 15.8kw, but the Zero is a production bike, this is a concept 1 off. I'm sure there are dozens of individual electric scooters/motorcycles which can go over 230 miles on a charge. Not only that, this thing doesn't sound very efficient in terms of weight, energy usage per mile, or charging time/platforms needed. They should have framed it as a cool addition to an already wide field but instead they make it sound like it's revolutionary.
Not to mention... I have it on good authority that the market is going to be revolutionized in the (hopefully near) future; Electric vehicles won't even use big batteries (there's something better in the works and I know someone trying to get a patent so I won't say more) and all of the gas powered cars will be converted to run on hydrogen fuel.