Electric bike sets record at Bonneville
Changing Times, but how quickly that change takes place, is the question. Stories in the press about electric motorcycles are more frequent these days. Articles about electric dirt bikes, Best Buy selling electric street bikes and a new FIM sanctioned roadracing series for electric motorcycles in 2010 have appeared in print and on the internet.
The story that got the most play was about the first race at the Isle of Man TT for zero-emission bikes called the TTXGP. The race attracted sixty different group when first announced, but ultimately motorcycle comes only sixteen to the island to compete. Pro Class was won by the team of Agni, which her bicycle with them in two months with a budget of $ 30,000. This compared favorably with other groups who had spent years and millions of dollars to get their bikes to the starting line.
Motors mission is a U.S. team that finished fourth in the occupational TTXGP a speed of 74.091 MPH. A speed that was just over thirteen mph slower than the winning team. The Agni-moto was over forty miles per hour slower than the fastest petrol bikes at the TT, but TTXGP hailed as a breakthrough for the environment. The inspection team would rather win, is for fourth place, but their long-term goal is to produce electricity Street Sport Bike.
With the TTXGP being just one step toward reaching their ultimate goal the San Francisco based Mission team moved on to the Bonneville Salt Flats to break the land speed record for electric bikes. In the same bike in the Isle of Man, the team set a new record for the salt at an average speed of 150.059 mph over two runs with a high speed of 161 mph in one of the runs.
Mission Motors is serious about putting their bikes or even folding electric bikes on the street. The bikes they race are production prototypes, and they say that they are on-schedule to reach their goal of selling 300 street legal electric bicyces by the end of 2010. If they’re able to reach that goal the times may be changing faster than we think.
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