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General Category => Electric Motorcycle News => Topic started by: Alan Stewart on July 24, 2017, 02:21:21 AM
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The Super Soco article page had a link to this article about a new model and a new record:
https://electricmotorcycles.news/first-test-for-lightnings-new-ls-rr-hyper-bike/ (https://electricmotorcycles.news/first-test-for-lightnings-new-ls-rr-hyper-bike/)
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A 23kwh battery pack? That has got to be kind of heavy and expensive. I am still waiting to hear more about the Lightning production model, what it costs and when it will be available. I am also mystified how Lightning stays in business. Kind of reminds me of Tesla - but with a lot less income from sales. ::)
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Wouldn't you expect a 200+ MPH motorcycle to be expensive?
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After having responded to Lightning representatives consistently at their appearances that they need to make a sport-touring version, I feel a short rhetorical statement worth repeating:
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what it'll take to get a robust production electric motorcycle meant for travel instead of a moonshot small-batch bike that's more likely to kill the owner or break than deliver usable value.
When will a company actually assemble a bike with fault-tolerant boards, a real robust frame, and put a conventional-looking but sculpted fairing on it?
And yes, I've heard it's a matter of a bunch of really impossible to wrangle vendor supply chains, unprecedented marketing, and investor confidence, but I still have to point out that the surviving batch of electric motorcycle manufacturers are running out the clock on the investor confidence front.