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A lot of tracks don't have the necessary equipment or training/knowledge to deal with a potential battery fire. In some cases, like in The Netherlands, there have been instances of university student teams taking their homebrew bikes to the track and something went wrong resulting in a fire that caused damage to the track and paddock. As a result, it's my understanding that there was a time they banned electrics at all Dutch racetracks. I think it was an entire year. Marchel, who is one of the larger Dutch dealers for Energica and a huge track day enthusiast, was SUPER pissed off.

The Energica club Netherlands purchased the necessary safety equipment, and now with briefing track days are perfectly fine, if planned with the club. 

Keep letting it balance. It may need another day or so of the BMS doing its thing.

Due to some broken parts, I can't ride the bike. I just charged to 80% SOC.
I now tried an AC full charge, this stopped at 98% and balanced for hours.
Within an hour or so, SOC decreased to 96%.
Unplugging and plugging AC started balancing again for some minutes, then stopped again at 96% - no charge to 100%.

Do I have a battery issue?

Yeah for Sunday rides I'd say 100 to 20 percent is about 150ish km for me as a rule of thumb but I've been on plenty of rides where I've beaten that which is nice.

Incidentally, I've had a couple of fairly slight friends take short rides on the back, the accommodations are ... basic. The rear end is moulded into a shape you can get your hands into and grip onto beneath the seat but it lacks proper handles, the seat is also, you know, a thin pad of hard foam with leathery stuff stretched over it. Your wife will need to hold on tight as the ride can be a bit hard and you'll wanna go easy on the throttle both for her own comfort and because there's nothing stock or aftermarket to stop here falling off the back should you decide to rip it with those 215Nm.

Dropping price to $13,000

A lot of tracks don't have the necessary equipment or training/knowledge to deal with a potential battery fire. In some cases, like in The Netherlands, there have been instances of university student teams taking their homebrew bikes to the track and something went wrong resulting in a fire that caused damage to the track and paddock. As a result, it's my understanding that there was a time they banned electrics at all Dutch racetracks. I think it was an entire year. Marchel, who is one of the larger Dutch dealers for Energica and a huge track day enthusiast, was SUPER pissed off.

There's a very frustrated Dutchman who has been logging the charging behavior of his bike with Rapid Charger with different firmware updates. He makes graphs and spreadsheets.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/zmcowners/posts/7500379610031182/

Noted about the sunday drives buffer thing.

Why the ban of EV's on a track?
The track where I had some courses (Denmarks biggest track) put up a fastcharger with 2 outlets. This was maybe 4 years ago.
I will check out (or email) whatever tracks seem reasonably close to me (Denmark and southern Sweden).

Me too.  Early SRF, new battery.  I've only ever got to 100% charging by using a 2 kW charger and leaving for a few days....  On fast or rapid chargers the charge rate falls down so much that a motorway stop is 2 hours not 45 mins.  I've learnt to dangerously empty the battery as I get full charge rate at low SOC's, but deciding when to leave needs constant monitoring.

Real miss here. Effectively can't use the bike to travel distance unless literally got all day. . For cruising distances, its worse than the old battery with its random SOC (Running out of power? take a  break, allow magic charging! )

Too add to my misery, my cellular doesn't work, the main use I have for it (apart from traceability) is to check charge status when I'm having coffee in comfort. I'm still working on this, but that's another story.

Pete

"intended use would be sunday drives"

In that case make sure you only need 90 miles max to allow for a buffer and prevent the anxiety of running out of juice.  If that is the mission, the Energica is second to none.

Track use may be limited.  many tracks forbid electric.  Check on that first if it really matters.  My local tracks do not allow Electric vehicles.