Electric Superbike is on the way

So how long will it take before we can see a finished prototype in carbon and metal?

“Probably five or six months at a minimum and maybe a few months longer. The point is that it’s all do-able – we’re working with many companies such as Yamaha and Polaris and Vectrix and we have a full crew that’s very suitable for developing and building a bike like this. We have the rapid prototypers, the designers, the technology, industrial designers, the fabricators and so on.

“It’s not whether it can be done, it’s how well it can be done. We have to do some more conceptual homework to finalise the background on the layout of the components – once we’ve done that we’ll go to full-size clay.

“We’re really focussed on the Vectrix scooter right now – maybe next January we’ll have something in metal and carbon that works. But the progress of the development will be well documented and we’re going to keep posting images on the site to keep people up to date with what we’re doing. We’ll also be involving people in the process – we want interaction and opinions and ideas and we’re very receptive to hearing what the motorcycle fraternity wants.

So just what sort of performance can we expect from the rMOTO?

“It’s kind of a balance we need to resolve. We can get a 100 miles an hour, 120 miles an hour bike but then the range of the bike suffers so it’s a matter of starting and knowing that the technologies and different battery chemistries will evolve in time, and probably not very much time at that.

“As battery technology progresses, as it inevitably will, the rMOTO will be a kind of a test bed for the technologies for the Vectrix scooter.

You’ll be incorporating some of the Vectrix regenerative braking system in the rMOTO?

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