An Electric Yamaha R1 Motorcycle
I’ve always known the Yamaha R1 motorcycle to be one of the big daddies of sports bikes. That is until a company in Oakland, CA that goes by Electric Motorsport converted the 99′ R1 into a LiIon (lithium ion) battery powered bike that can do 100mph and 0-60 in 3 seconds.
To get the bike this way, they had to yank the engine, tailpipes, radiator, gas cap, transmission, and clutch. They then replaced all that with 28 lithium ion batteries, an AC regenerative motor, and an electric throttle…all weighing less than what was removed in the first place.
One of the coolest parts is that when the bike is idle, it is completely silent…when it’s going, it sounds like a remote control car on steroids. The conversion costs about $15,000, but is just a prototype at this time. The company hopes to have a production version around this price range with a custom chassis, as well as a cheaper, smaller $6,000-$8,000 version.
Here’s a video report that was done by LATimes.com:
[Source: LA Times]
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Brandon Hopkins
06/10/2007 6:44 pmThat would make sense on a consumer scale… i.e. the power of a regular street bike that goes 500 miles per charge.
Wagner Mendel
12/24/2007 7:52 amWhen we will start to see does bikes on a race?
momo
04/26/2008 7:09 pmlooks pretty stupid with all these battery’s sticking out they need to down size all these things make it look more pleasing to the eye.
Lukmaan
08/16/2008 8:28 amWow!Its really wonderful!I think this will be our FUTURE Bike!Hope.
Ken
04/27/2009 4:06 amI want one! I have a few queestions though! How do I make this myself and also I live just outside of Vancouver Canada which is the green city in Canada, Have you considered opening up shop up here! I have had an ubsession wiht Sport bikes since I was a child and would love to further my knowledge of them!
Ken $
Eugene
06/02/2009 11:18 amIt looks bad but it probably sounds good.
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jason john
07/13/2009 3:13 amif u want to sell leave a comment above my text plz
mario
07/28/2009 4:34 pmso does this bike work?
Martin Kono
02/01/2010 5:13 amIt’s a great direction of development. Electric cars, electric bikes. However, they are slow now, but will improve in time.