charliehatfield
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Is anyone going to race at Laguna Seca at the Redbull Grandprix?
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Electric Motorcycle Racing
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charliehatfield
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Sun shinning on a foggy Day
I had a chance to get down and see the electric bikes in the FIM race on sunday. What a great event for the electric bike to be part of. We are starting to see some serious money being put into these bikes. Brammo probably had more "Brammo Girls" than most teams had volinteering. However you can have all the hot girls at your tent but it counts how it runs on the track and it was broke. (They fried something in qualifications.) In the race I though the Lighting was going to run away with it but one to many sighting laps before the start and they ran out of battery power. Moto Czysz was able to cut a 10 second gap to win it at the line. Both the the Czysz and Brammo bike are gorgious pieces of engineering.
I had a chance to get down and see the electric bikes in the FIM race on sunday. What a great event for the electric bike to be part of. We are starting to see some serious money being put into these bikes. Brammo probably had more "Brammo Girls" than most teams had volinteering. However you can have all the hot girls at your tent but it counts how it runs on the track and it was broke. (They fried something in qualifications.) In the race I though the Lighting was going to run away with it but one to many sighting laps before the start and they ran out of battery power. Moto Czysz was able to cut a 10 second gap to win it at the line. Both the the Czysz and Brammo bike are gorgious pieces of engineering.
Busy Little Shop
exponential thinker
Electric vehicle manufacturers are reluctant to make direct
comparisons between gas and batteries preferring to de-emphasize
weight and range and stress recharging speed and cost.
Electric powered racer might be interesting but the only hurdle is the
batteries... current state of the art in battery technology just can't
compare to the energy in a ounce of petrol... gas still sports 60
times the energy of an battery... fill your tank with 4 gallons of gas
and it weights 25.6 pounds (6.4 lb per gallon x 4)... a 32 pound
Lithium-Ion battery would equal only 11 ounces of gas... that really
negatively effects range... you'd need about 1489 pounds in batteries
to equal 4 gallons of petrol or 80 MotoCzysz's patented suitcase
lithium polymer battery packs that weight 18 lb each... Michael ran
ten batteries which totals 180 lbs... 10 batteries equals about the
energy in a 1/2 gallon of gas... that limits range to 40 miles at race
pace... a rider can either swap out the packs or plug into the grid
and take a break......
80 MotoCzysz's lithium battery packs equals the energy in 4 gallons of
gas...
comparisons between gas and batteries preferring to de-emphasize
weight and range and stress recharging speed and cost.
Electric powered racer might be interesting but the only hurdle is the
batteries... current state of the art in battery technology just can't
compare to the energy in a ounce of petrol... gas still sports 60
times the energy of an battery... fill your tank with 4 gallons of gas
and it weights 25.6 pounds (6.4 lb per gallon x 4)... a 32 pound
Lithium-Ion battery would equal only 11 ounces of gas... that really
negatively effects range... you'd need about 1489 pounds in batteries
to equal 4 gallons of petrol or 80 MotoCzysz's patented suitcase
lithium polymer battery packs that weight 18 lb each... Michael ran
ten batteries which totals 180 lbs... 10 batteries equals about the
energy in a 1/2 gallon of gas... that limits range to 40 miles at race
pace... a rider can either swap out the packs or plug into the grid
and take a break......
80 MotoCzysz's lithium battery packs equals the energy in 4 gallons of
gas...