Putting aside for a moment that electric racing motorcycles are about as exciting as watching astroturf grow, your electric bike articles were short-circuited to say the least. The best electric motor in the world may be 94% efficient, but when you subtract the heat thrown off by the controller and other losses, the efficiency drops to 80% or less.Current is a factory that produces about 40% efficiency.It is then on the electricity grid, which is less than 85% transfer efficiency due to losses. Therefor, the net efficiency of an electric bicycle or car is about 25%, very similar to a gasoline engine.
So the electric bikes might be “carrying” the equivalent of 1.3 gallons of gas, but they’ve actually consumed the equivalent of 5 gallons to get around the Isle of Man.I could go around the Isle five times wide open on a 250cc supermoto on that much gas! It will take 20 years to develop batteries with enough energy density to make a practical electric motorcycle or a folding electric bike.
Let’s use electricity to generate hydrogen and have some explosively fast bikes if we must participate in this green charade!
Electric cars (and bikes) are a joke. They only exist due to fear and confusion about “global warming”, a non-problem if there ever was one.Fear of carbon? Get real.A basic understanding of meteorology and the atmosphere show that the man has no significant impact on the climate - take the time to read about it - you’ll be surprised.Our food supply grows with it,carbon is not evil. Global warming is not evil,it just makes North Dakota more comfortable in the winter.I’m just a person who has researched the carbon hype and found it to be mostly a pack of lies,I don’t work for an oil company.


