Former Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell introduced this week that he’s founded an EV startup called Fuell to make all-electric powered bikes and bicycles. He’s teamed up with Frédéric Vasseur, the enterprise proprietor that makes the chassis for Formula E. Of the handfuls of electric bikes announced every 12 months; this one looks like it’d have a shot.
Fuell’s first product could be an electric powered-assist motorcycle called Fluid, which expenses approximately $3,300. It could have swappable batteries that combine to give it a hundred twenty-five-mile variety and will come in two variations, one with a top pace of 20 miles per hour and another that may hit 28 miles consistent with an hour. According to the organization, the fluid is meant to move on sale quickly — deliveries could occur via the cease of this year.
But I’m much more interested in Flow, the enterprise’s electric motorcycle. It also includes a tame two-wheeler with an 11kW motor and a more powerful variant with a 35kW engine. The Flow motorbike seems like a beefed-up version of Gogoro’s electric-powered scooters, with black and gray panels accented through bright greenish-blue accents.
It also ditches the standard chain or belt setup in favor of an in-wheel motor, which offers the bike a fair extra futuristic look. Fuell says the Flow motorcycle will hit the road in 2021 for around $11,000, though it shared other specs. That’s roughly in step with the pricing of, say, many Zero Motorcycles’ motorcycles and a 3rd of what Harley-Davidson will rate for its own EV -wheeler, although we’ll have to wait some years to see how the Flow suits up.
With the affordability of electric cars and battery-era methods, new electric-powered motorbike, moped, and motorbike businesses pop up almost every day. It’s to the point that it’s hard to get too enamored of any of them because there’s no way they can all continue to exist. One factor is drawing up a slick-looking concept, but delivering a first-rate product (and servicing customers later on) is difficult.
