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Range is a beast on a bike without a revolutionary development in battery technology. Electric scooters for the city would seem to have a bright future but anything requiring range or performance is going to have a problem with the size and weight of the battery required. Honda (via their partner Mugen) have been sinking plenty into high performance electric bikes with their e-racing project. They hold the electric lap record at the TT (been racing there since 2012) at 119mph. The problem is, that's still only good for one 37 mile lap and it weighs a whopping 248kg.
Jung
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This company has only existed for about ten years and look what they've achieved! I think Honda can do better. The Lightning LS-218 has been around for the last couple of years.
It's name comes from it's land speed record achievement of doing 218mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats (fastest production motorcycle to date). It makes over 200bhp (at the back wheel), and produces 168 ft-lbs of torque (all available throughout the rev range). Truly amazing! Once range increases, charging availability increases and price decreases, electric bikes will replace our oil burning dinosaurs for sure. The future is closer than you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1aTLBKIoQ