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With 54 HP, 100mph top speed, 65 mile range and 8 hours charge (stage 1* charger) or 3.5 hours (stage 2* charger) it's an idea who's time will never come. You need to do better than 1:4 and 1:8 drive:charge, especially with a 65 mile range. $0.02
What happens if two cars/bikes need to recharge at the same time on a long trip? Wait or walk? Ask the other electric vehicle owner for a lift? This will be a huge problem if electric cars/bikes become cheap and popular.
Nice for a commuter except for the price. I have a 10 mile commute, suburban roads, speed limit 35 to 40, my Buell and Guzzi's are kind of overkill for the trip. E bike would work out fine.
To charge this bike you'd have to shop for at least 4 hours. How much stuff can you carry on it?
The victor is going to be the guy who gets the 'standard' for replaceable batteries. In the future all vehicles will conform to a battery standard. Within that standard will be 'hotswapabble' batteries. You pull in, back up to a changing station, and some robotic thingy extracts your spent battery, checks the charge level/battery condition and swaps in a fresh one. You get billed the difference between whatever charge is in your battery and the fresh unit. Time should be about the same as filling up a gas tank.
With 54 HP, 100mph top speed, 65 mile range and 8 hours charge (stage 1* charger) or 3.5 hours (stage 2* charger) it's an idea who's time will never come. You need to do better than 1:4 and 1:8 drive:charge, especially with a 65 mile range. $0.02* Remember when "stage 1" and "stage 2" were performance mod packages?
When I looked at it on the Victory site, I could find the specs. .....Apparently Victory decided not to post the weight of the Empulse.
... It's a great idea, I'd love to have one, the hold back for the masses is still the cost. At 20 large, its just a tiny nitch bike. When they get the price down to 10k, the market will start to blossom. That day is likely not to far off.
The dumbest idea for a motorcycle UNTILL battery range IS at least 200 miles, whose gonna buy a motorcycle to replace a scooter at 5 to 10 times the price. The technology to make the drive train for an electric bike existed decades ago, "its the battery stupid!"
...the price of the electric bikes is many times that of an equivalent gas-powered one, that is a tough sell. Considering that many scooters get 70-100 MPG, that price difference will never be made up with fuel savings. There will be some savings in maintenance costs, as electric motors don't need oil changes, valve adjusts, etc. But, those costs are still small compared to the price of entry.All that said, as this technology matures, the price of entry will come down.OR -- our lovely gov't will artificially (though tax and other legislation) make the cost of petro-powered vehicles and or the fuel higher than the electrics.
At the 'scheduled check' time (some months from the last check of one of my tanks) I'm charged for an inspection. It might not be my original tank being inspected, but on the clock, it's my turn to be charged.
That's interesting. Here in NC, and when I lived in MD, the exchange fee covers everything, including the hydrostatic tests. Even my "customer owned" tanks are exchanged like the rented ones, and I don't pay for the tests separately. The only time I've paid for a test is on a tank I own that they won't exchange. I have to leave it, and come back to get it when it's filled. If it's out of date, they charge for a hydrostatic test. Similar procedures might well end up applying to battery exchanges.
Nice for a commuter except for the price. I have a 10 mile commute, suburban roads, speed limit 35 to 40, my Buell and Guzzi's are kind of overkill for the trip Same, you should get a Madass for that 10 miles commute, it's a blast.. E bike would work out fine.