Electric motorcycle tops 150mph (250kph)

[Bob]

An all-electric motorcycle – the KillaCycle - has completed a quarter mile run in 8.168 seconds, recording a top speed of 155.87mph (roughly 250.85kph). The run breaks the six-year record held by an electric car.

The bike is powered by 990 lithium ion cells. For more information: http://www.killacycle.com/

[NordieBoy]

That is cool :D

[Skunk]

Man, that thing launches quick!

[Deviant Esq]

Holy crap! :eek5: At a grand total cost of $0.10 in electricity each run? That's just insane. And super super awesome too! Thanks for posting. If others here are reading this... check out the website and youtube video of it! :cool:

[surfer]

Wow, awesome, electrickery finally moving bikes faster.

Does it make a throbby exhaust sound from the engine or does the rider have to do this him/herself?

GGGrrrrrrrrrrr GGGGrrrrrrrrrrr GGGGGrrrrrrrrrrr how many gears does it have?

[NordieBoy]

Go have a look (and hear) at the vids.

[Coyote]

Cor blimey. That's how I imagined a electric powered bike to be like though, straight off the line with a whining noise like an RC car :D awesome

One of my many ideas is a RS125 rolling chassis powered by electric motors. How much are high performance electric motors? Or do you have to make them yourself?

[surfer]

Go have a look (and hear) at the vids.

I did, was sure the throbbing sound was another bike in the background. I heard the whine of the electric motor ok.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Impressive to make a lectrickery one go that fast though.

[Matt Bleck]

Cool, sound's like a Power Drill!

[dmouse]

how far will it go before you have to recharge ? can you plug it in the mains to recarge and as its lecy powerd does that mean you dont need rego or warrant or plates if so where can i buy one just to piss off the boys in blue imagine getting a raod check done hahaha

[T.I.E]

im guessing no gears is possible, no clutch also. just twist when ya want and its all go.
thats impressive.
no noise problems (bit of a shame)
and emmision controls?
at least ill be able to hook up a sub to it.

[NordieBoy]

im guessing no gears is possible, no clutch also. just twist when ya want and its all go.
thats impressive.
no noise problems (bit of a shame)
and emmision controls?
at least ill be able to hook up a sub to it.

You could hook up a submarine to it.

[Motu]

They had a 3 day model powerboat meeting at Lake Hakanoa in Huntly over Easter,I went down for a look every day.Screaming 2 strokes and castor oil,man those hydroplanes can move!

They had a kids starter class with electric motors - then some guy hauled out an electric hydoplane.Holy shit,that thing was fast,it didn't race against the smokers....but it would of smoked them easy.Electric is not slow....and it wasn't quiet either.

[NordieBoy]

Back in 2001 the electric boat record was 87.51 mph.
They kept breaking 1/8th inch flexi drive-shafts.

[SlashWylde]

That thing kicks ass! This is why I love engineering. Power electronics rulez.

[toymachine]

Thats bloody cool.

Don't get that awesome shiver down your spine that a wicked sounding combustion engine gives though

[Waylander]

Goes boom.

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[davereid]

Looks like a few white lies told though. You don't get energy for nothing. They base the claim of 0.10c based on 0.7 kw/hr of electricity used.

Thats far enough, if you have a 250 kw engine and you run it for an hour, you'll use 250kw/hrs of power. If you run it for 9 seconds, you use 9/3600 x 250 = 625 watts.

But when you use an electric engine on the road, for real transport, you use power for a lot longer than 9 seconds.

Environmentally it would be (like other electric vehicles) a disaster, as most of the worlds electricity is produced thermally from coal and oil.

But, its still BLOODY FAST ! :scooter:

[Conquiztador]

about a small car powered by compressed air. Got about 200k's out of a filling. Has a compressor onboard that U plug in to 230AC and fills the air tanks in 4 hours and off U go again. And it is now in production. Max speed a little over 100K/h.

So give it a year or two and we might be riding on two wheel air cylinders down the road...

[shcabbeh]

So give it a year or two and we might be riding on two wheel air cylinders down the road...

Shudder.

No thanks.

[davereid]

2 wheeled air compressors ? You mean Harley Davidsons ?

[Tim 39]

250 KPH out of a electric bike, thats crazy!! would seem so quiet. We'll probably be racing them in ten years time!

[avgas]

good on them - last time i checked on em they had the bike doing 11 sec 1/4's
They also wanted to make a cobra with 4 electric motors.

[DougB]

This makes the LE velocette that we converted to electric
motor back in the 1970's look like a flintstone job.
If we had had those batterys things would have been
much different.

[banditrider]

How about this one?

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2007/06/03/electric-yamaha-r1-lightning-lithium/

[Chrislost]

reminds me of
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:yes:

was that gas or electric tho?