Limited range: 70 miles of highway range, 146 city.
Not for long “Easy Rider” trips, but fun while the batteries last.
Range needs to be tripled. That’s probably ten to twenty years out.
70 mile range is fine. It’s the recharge time that is stupid silly.
Vehicle batteries need to be standardized for electric to ever take off. You can't sit around waiting for the things to charge between legs of a trip.
One possible solution - I haven't bothered to see if it's economically feasible - but from an engineering POV is to make the battery packs easily removable/replaced.
You drive up to the battery "pump" which extracts your spent battery pack and a charged one is then inserted, and you drive off.
The spent packs are charging on a conveyor with one ones that are fully charged being switched to the "charged" conveyor where they are now on just a trickle charge awaiting the next customer.
In the meantime, I'll just stick with gasoline and sing the throaty Song of the Ducati People.
IIRC the old Harleys only had about a 75 mile range on a tank.
A motorcycle that you can’t jump on a take a empromptu trip of 100-200 miles is a worthless POS.
With a 70 mile (at best) range you are limited to trips of less than 35 miles, which is a sad joke.
Nobody talks about one key metric.
Miles per hour of charge time