They've been racing electric bikes at IOMTT for a few years now but in their own class and they only race 1 lap (vs 4 for petrol)? The MotoCysz guy has a pretty sexy bike in there and has been winning the last few years. There is a good doco on it called Charged. It's on Netflix if you have it.
It's great to see the technology being developed and the results are showing steady improvements every year but they are still down 15-20mph ave on the big bikes. I wouldn't have expected to see them going head to head for a few more years yet.
Energy storage is what's really holding up the whole electric/solar/renewable energy thing and the more people putting their heads towards a solution the better. I do agree that battery tech has near reached its potential and we are in major need of a technological leap but this doesn't mean we should put the whole electric thing on hold until it arrives. As the people out there doing it already have found, there is a lot of progress that can be made elsewhere.
EV is still not profitable yet but it's almost at the tipping point where it could be and that's when you'll start seeing the major players jumping in with their big R&D dollars as they make a play to increase their market share before their competitors do.
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Originally Posted by AllanB
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