Finally an electric bike that ticks all the boxes?

[Dare]

Mission R electric racebike announced

Mission Motors have unveiled their new electric racebike, the Mission R, which they claim is the ‘most advanced electric racing motorcycle in the world.’ The bike has been designed by Tim Prentice of Motonium Design and features race-spec components from manufacturers like Öhlins, Brembo and Marchesini.

The Mission R’s powerplant consists of a liquid-cooled three-phase AC induction motor that pumps out 141 horsepower and 156Nm of torque from zero to 6,400rpm! Now that’s definitely something no conventional motorcycle can match.

http://www.fasterandfaster.net/2010/...announced.html

No word on price, peformance specs or release date but it certainly does seem.. The times, they are a-changin'.

[rwh]

Since there is no mention of range or battery charging time, we guess the technology isn’t ready to go mainstream yet.

That's a fairly big unticked box.

Not counting all those for someone who wants something other than a racebike - it doesn't look like it would do for my commute, or get me to Auckland in comfort

Richard

[SMOKEU]

I bet it would be heavy as phuck and only give its claimed performance for 5km or so before the batteries drain and performance slows down to the pace of an 80 year old in a wheelchair. I still really like the design, but mainstream battery technology just isn't there yet.

[EJK]

Instant torque? Sounds like drag racing at every lights.

[SMOKEU]

Instant torque? Sounds like drag racing at every lights.

If you can keep the front wheel on the ground!

[robo555]

I bet it would be heavy as phuck and only give its claimed performance for 5km or so before the batteries drain and performance slows down to the pace of an 80 year old in a wheelchair. I still really like the design, but mainstream battery technology just isn't there yet.

Mission Motors uses lithium-ion batteries, combined with an electric motor, I don't suspect it'll be heavy.

Yes it's not mainstream yet, I'll love it when it does though. Makes so much more sense to power a car/bike using electricity instead of petrol. Instant power, high efficiency. Knowing the energy usually wasted on heat/noise is used to make it go faster instead.

[NZsarge]

At the very least it looks good, still no where near convinced though.

[SMOKEU]

Mission Motors uses lithium-ion batteries, combined with an electric motor, I don't suspect it'll be heavy.

Yes it's not mainstream yet, I'll love it when it does though. Makes so much more sense to power a car/bike using electricity instead of petrol. Instant power, high efficiency. Knowing the energy usually wasted on heat/noise is used to make it go faster instead.

Electric vehicles are clearly the way of the future - but it's not really feasible until batteries can give good performance for 400km+; about the fuel tank range of most cars. The majority of people won't be happy with a car that needs to be recharged for a few hours after every 50km of driving.

[Dare]

Electric vehicles are clearly the way of the future - but it's not really feasible until batteries can give good performance for 400km+; about the fuel tank range of most cars. The majority of people won't be happy with a car that needs to be recharged for a few hours after every 50km of driving.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0916143910.htm
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article...100223/180545/
The potential is to get better performance than petrol.. Hopefully sooner rather than later

[bogan]

thats fucking good looking, SSSA and with 14.4kwh on board I'd be surprised if it had less than a 150km range (highway use, not track). Would be a fucking blast on the track too

[imdying]

Bad arse. If that's the way things are heading, I'm over the internal combustion engine already.

[Juzz976]

I guessing it'll sound fucking awesome, although not as good as a big twin.

Wheelie machine? maybe, although likely to have some form of traction/wheelie control programmed into its drive.

[SMOKEU]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0916143910.htm
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article...100223/180545/
The potential is to get better performance than petrol.. Hopefully sooner rather than later

Just have a look at the Tesla Roadster. Yes, I know it's a cage but it's pretty quick in comparison to most other performance cars.

[robo555]

Just have a look at the Tesla Roadster. Yes, I know it's a cage but it's pretty quick in comparison to most other performance cars.

The links he posted are referring to batteries and energy storage. I think what he means by better performance is the new technologies can store more energy than petrol, instead of speed and acceleration. Most of us agree that an electric motor can kick a gas engine's ass in the speed/acceleration aspect.

[steve_t]

thats fucking good looking, SSSA and with 14.4kwh on board I'd be surprised if it had less than a 150km range (highway use, not track). Would be a fucking blast on the track too

The article about it doing 257.6km/h on the Bonneville salt flats said the range is about 250km. Hopefully, that's track range and road range is quite a lot more. This thing looks like a beast!