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The UKP20,000 TTX01 - 86 BHP, Electric 2WD Motorcycle

By Mike Hanlon

01:18 November 27, 2008 PST

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TTX GP founder Azhar Hussain and the bike he commissioned, the prototype TTX01.

TTX GP founder Azhar Hussain and the bike he commissioned, the prototype TTX01.

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"One of the other critically important aspects of the next version of the bike is to have hot swappable batteries. If you want to go racing, no-one is going to charge their battery quickly enough in a pit stop, and it must be hot swappable because the computer-controlled power management system we have on the drawing boards will need rebooting if you cut the power. Accordingly, we're shooting for hot swappable 20 kilowatt hour battery packs, even though the current machine only has a 14 kilowatt hour pack."

Right now, the 20 killowatt hour battery pack weighs in at 75 kilograms, and fully charged, at road speeds, that should give the bike around 50 miles - obviously everything is geared around completing one lap of the 37 mile TT circuit at race speeds, but talking in roadgoing terms, the recharge time with a standard 13 amp power supply is under two hours."

"We'll be using the TTX01 as a promotional vehicle during the first six months of 2009 leading up to the TTX GP, with motorcycle journalists being invited to ride the machine to verify that it performs as claimed, and there will be a battery-powered European tour taking in Portugal, France, Germany and Italy promoting the TTX GP where we'll be using the bike."

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