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Fuel energy density is a hell of a problem. On car you have some room to wiggle as anyway you're getting some weight reduction by just changing from a combustio
by mtrovo 6y ago
Fuel energy density is a hell of a problem. On car you have some room to wiggle as anyway you're getting some weight reduction by just changing from a combustion to an electric engine.
Motorbikes on the other hand are optimized on a specific setting (think how an enduro handles different than a superbike and so on) which makes it really hard to add weight and you end up with a much bigger trade-off between fuel volume and range.
- taneq 6y agoBikes vs. cars also gets hit with the squared-cubed law. Energy storage scales with the cube of vehicle size, while frontal area scales with the square. Air drag accounts for the majority of energy usage at highway speed, so for the same vehicle shape, range scales with size. Add the fact that bikes have a high Cd compared to cars and range is always going to be markedly less.