Electric cars, and now electric motorcycles?

[SUBMAN1]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/anotger-great-e.html

Hmm... Probably gets more mileage than a car I would guess.

-S

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/22/electric_gprs_red_tiger2.jpg

[Onkel Neal]

Ewwww!

[UnderseaLcpl]

Ewwww!

Seconded.


I'd only buy one if they looked better than and were faster than the RR bikes on the market today.

[SUBMAN1]

Ewwww!
Seconded.


I'd only buy one if they looked better than and were faster than the RR bikes on the market today.Gotta make room for that battery!

-S

[Schöneboom]

If it doesn't go "VROOOM!" fuhgeddaboutit!!! :p

Or to borrow Crocodile Dundee's line, That's not a motorcycle... THIS is a motorcycle:

http://nsd.dyndns.org/MC/1949_Vincent_Black_Shadow.jpg

[Letum]

Well, it's not bad for one of the first, but there is a long way to go.

[Zachstar]

This is not some replacement for a Harley. Electric bikes that can go highway speeds are highly tuned works of engineering.

[Schöneboom]

I don't doubt the engineering, or the good intentions. But I would not be looking to buy one of these anytime soon. There's more than aesthetics behind my preference for the "VROOM" -- Car drivers often do not see us coming, but sometimes they can hear us -- that can be the difference between life & death. The electro-bike would be nearly silent! I would sooner get an electric car, for the sake of better protection.

[Zachstar]

If needed put a sound system on it to make the sound.

[Quillan]

I can see a use for it: a vehicle for covert-ops troops. Silent travel.

[bookworm_020]

The Next bike for Australian Post!:-? They already have push bikes with electric motors to assist ridders as they travel on their rounds.

[FIREWALL]

Where I live you can't drive a combustion engine vehicle.

Only emergency vehicles and a few lg trucks to haul lg goods from dock.

Electric is the law here. :yep:

[Diopos]

false posting, please continue.