Electric Vehicles

The electric motorcycle industry always seems to fuck it up a little, often by aiming at the way top end of price, and putting in a motor that's way too big, and yet limiting the top speed. It can accelerate from a stop to 80 miles per hour in 5 seconds flat, and then that's it, that's all it can do. For about an hour, using up its 80 mile highway range before it needs to be charged for an hour and a half.

My Ninja 250 cost $4000, weighed about 300 pounds, had a top speed of 130, performed like a hot hatchback or Mazda Miata, held just under 5 gallons of gas and made just about 70 miles per gallon, for an effective range of about 300 miles on a tank.

I've gone on road trips that outright wouldn't have been possible on this thing, and many more that would have added days to the trip having to wait for the bike to recharge 50% of the time.

I've also seen very little in the way of electric scooters, the 30mph moped Vespa style. Perfect machine for electrification, it needs to go 30 miles per hour and make 100 miles on a charge. This should be doable.