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Some years ago, Brammo developed, but never sold, a 6 speed electric motorcycle: https://www.wired.com/2011/05/brammo-six-speed-tranmission https://www.wired.c
by danans 8y ago
Some years ago, Brammo developed, but never sold, a 6 speed electric motorcycle:
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/brammo-six-speed-tranmission https://www.wired.com/2011/05/brammo-six-speed-tranmission
The idea was that you got the low speed torque of an electric motor and the high top speed of a ICE.
It was probably a marginal improvement though, and really more of a manual transmission nostalgia play.
- joeblau 8y agoThat is interesting. The one electric motorcycle that I heard of that was super fast was the KillaCycle[1]. I think it only had one gear though and a 0-60 mph of 0.97 seconds. The motorcycle nearly killed it's owner[2]. [1] - http://www.killacycle.com/ http://www.killacycle.com/ [2] - https://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/all-electric-killacycle-tries-to-kill-its-maker/ https://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/all-electric-killacycle-...
- gtspotscom 8y agois....is that how it got its name? (serious question)
- joeblau 8y agoLOL, I think they named it the Killa Cycle before the owner almost killed himself. A bit of foreshadowing I must say.
- jbn 8y agoMission Motors did one too. See https://www.fastcompany.com/1578451/object-desire-yves-behars-mission-one-motorcycle https://www.fastcompany.com/1578451/object-desire-yves-behar...