On the eve of its first race--at one of the toughest and most dangerous motorcycle racetracks in the world--Popsci takes an exclusive inside look at one man's quest to engineer the ultimate electric race bike .


Quote from the article:

This is the 2010 MotoCzysz E1pc, a race bike built by a tiny Oregonian company focused on pushing the limits of electric performance to the absolute max. It packs 10 times the battery capacity of a Toyota Prius and 2.5 times the torque of a Ducati 1198 into a package that looks like something out of a 24th-century Thunderdome. Tomorrow it will race in the Isle of Man TT, the toughest motorcycle race in the world. The technology at work is so advanced, so unprecedented, that we may be looking not just at the future of motorcycles, but of all electric vehicles. The reason the all-electric race bike is here, 4,600 miles from its home in Portland, Oregon, is to prove itself. Ever since 1907, the Isle of Man TT has been the race for bike manufacturers and riders to show their mettle to the public. The thinking goes that if you can lap its 37.7 miles of tiny, twisty back roads with an average speed in excess of 100 MPH, you or your bike become indisputably proven. Well over 200 riders and a handful of spectator’s have been killed trying to do just that. But as recently as two days ago, the future of motorcycles was missing its body panels (stuck in customs). Before this week, the finished bike has never even seen the light of day. But even in its unproven, incomplete state, it's been putting in laps that have the competition quaking in their leather.

Source: The Inside Story of the MotoCzysz E1pc, the World's Most Advanced Electric Motorcycle

Rate this story

Rating: 1 ... Bad 2 ... Not the best 3 ... Average 4 ... Good 5 ... Awesome

Your Name:


Subject:


Icon:
                     
             

Message:


Disable smilies in this post.
Disable block tag code.
Add [url] tag at URLs.