RE: Electric motorcycles - 10

Here are 8 reasons to buy an electric motorcycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFp2V2PAtCk

I didn't see range, refueling time or audio invisibility listed.
I can hop on my RS, on a whim, point it north and ride to Sydney without any preparation and do it in 9 hours. Can't do that on a battery bike.

Zitat von Aussie Import im Beitrag #137

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I didn't see range, refueling time or audio invisibility listed.
I can hop on my RS, on a whim, point it north and ride to Sydney without any preparation and do it in 9 hours. Can't do that on a battery bike.

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An article in the business section of my newspaper yesterday, published by Bloomberg News, is titled: "China moves ahead of U.S. about 8-1 in building chargers for electric vehicles". The article states that: "There are almost as many places to charge your electric vehicle in Beijing as there are in the entire United States."

According to the article, China is considering establishing a target that 60% for all automobiles sold by 2035 will be electric powered. By 2040 China's electric fleet may increase to 162 million vehicles, as forecasted by BloombergNEE.

The nation is building at least 20 "EV towns" for carmakers and ancillary industries and it spent more than $30 billion subsidizing EV sales. China accounts for more than half of global EV sales.

By the end of last month China had 466,101 public charging points, according to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance. That includes more than 54,000 charging stations in Beijing alone. By comparison, there were 60,652 electric stations in the U.S. as of June 25, according to BNEF. California has the most of any state with 19,000 total, or about the same amount as China adds in an average month.

Globally, there could be as many as 20 million public charging points installed by 2030, the International Energy Agency forecasts.

I still don't accept a charging station to be equal to a petrol browser. Fueling a petrol car or bike is measured in a few minutes. Recharging is a few hours.

Maybe when fast charging / slow release capacitors are invented it will be different.

Until then, electric vehicles will be primarily a charge at home overnight deal.

Why aren't Hydrogen fueled vehicle's being developed quicker ? It seems to be a no brainer.
No pollution. Quick to refuel. 🤔

Zitat von L2RKE im Beitrag #141

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Why aren't Hydrogen fueled vehicle's being developed quicker ? It seems to be a no brainer.
No pollution. Quick to refuel. 🤔

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Interesting styling, but a bit overdone for my taste. Pierre Terblanche strikes again:
https://electricmotorcycles.news/pierre-...ation-with-bst/

"Interesting styling, but a bit overdone for my taste. Pierre Terblanche strikes again" Looks like a Lego bike

Here is the latest from Energica for 2020. Quite a large increase in battery capacity and range at almost no increase in price. In the U.S. the prices for the new bikes are reported as: Ego+: $23,870
EVA Ribelle: $22,160
SS9+: $21,350

2020 Energica models.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte)

Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #144

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Interesting styling, but a bit overdone for my taste. Pierre Terblanche strikes again:
https://electricmotorcycles.news/pierre-...ation-with-bst/

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The latest news from Kawasaki is that they have developed an electric motorcycle as a technology demonstrator, but apparently they have no plans to market the bike, or any electric motorcycle in the near future: https://www.motorcycle.com/mini-features...le-concept.html

Electric vehicles all have to have the electrcity generated somewhere so they are no better than hydrogen fuel cells in not producing pollution. Electric vehicles move the polution from the vehicle to a power station. Both are not more than 30% efficent but at least in a troditional car the waste heat can be used to heat the passanger compartment.

I havn't read anywhere that hydrogen is unstable. Unless it is mixed with the right amount of oxygen it won't explode although it will burn. Most of the people who got bad burns on the hindenburg airship got them from the fuel for the engines burning not the hydrogen as hydrogen being lighter than air rises.

Electric vehicles are only any good if you have a drive as a lot of people have their parking space too far away from their homes to streach a charging lead. Even if you can park right outside your house someone will think its funny to unplug or cut your charging lead.

I have been riding electric motorcycles since 2009 and have found them to be very useful for short trips, commuting and for traveling to places within a set distance. Plus, I have never needed any maintenance or replacement parts on any of my Zero electric motorcycles since they got their act together in 2012. That sure saves a lot of money, compared with bringing my BMWs into the dealer for periodic servicing. My running costs are about 2 cents a mile.

The pollution argument doesn't hold up when the electrical power is generated by solar, hydro, wind, geothermal and similar non-polluting sources as much of it is in California.