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What is the point in a $37,000 bike with SS battery and 600km of range. ICE bikes get about 200km a tank. No one rides 600km a day. If the point of SS batteries is fast charging , then why carry around 33 KWhr of overpriced battery?

This is a bike designed by non motorcyclists and marketed on numbers. 1000nm instant torque? That’s unrideable. 3.5 sec 0-60 is not fast for a motorcycle, so their math doesn’t even make sense. It’s just a bunch of numbers. 200kw charging? Who cares, and good like finding a charger that will do that.

Every premium price EV bike company has gone broke.

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Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think the bike exists to sell the battery. I’m getting a strong feeling there is no intention for the bike to be profitable, but rather as a proof that what they’re selling works by showcasing a real-world model that people can buy and drive.

With their plans to out-scale Tesla in battery manufacturing, it seems to me that they’re hoping to capture deals with EV manufacturers.

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boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Don’t worry, someone did the math in another thread here on Lemmy and said there’s no way it’ll ever do 600km. Would pretty much have to have better energy density batteries than petrol. Not a thing with current technology. 200km is more likely.

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Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Your points are valid but those chargers are very common, probbaly the most common where I am. There are 400kw chargers cropping up too.

Also I would hope that the range is so high to allow for the inevitable failure to achieve the stated range.

But yeah everything else is laugh worthy

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Turn something this into a moderately off road capable adventure bike and I’m sold. The BMW and KTM guys will absolutely pay $20,000 for it, albeit maybe not $37,000.

My KLR has about 200 miles of range per fill, if you’re even the slightest bit careful with it, which is necessary for excursions out into the bush where there are neither gas stations nor charging points.

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