Diesel Electric Hybrid Motorcycle

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Diesel electric hybrid motorcycle.

Government doesn t require corporate average fuel economy for motorcycles. While the other bikes on this list offer up serious goods power handling and classic aesthetics the biggest hope for diesel powered motorcycles probably lies with this little scooter. It s a superbike first and foremost offering riders an established design that was brought to light by a team of f1 and le mans engineers and a capable 107 kw engine that translates to around 145 horsepower overall. 13 5 horses and an unexpected 26 lb ft of torque.

And as hybrid powertrains and electric motorbikes rapidly become the norm diesel motorcycles will arguably continue their steady slide into obscurity until one day you might only see them behind glass at an automotive museum or when. You see it s not just a diesel motorcycle. It s time to take electric motorbikes seriously in 2016 germany voted to ban the internal combustion engine by 2030 and the uk government is under pressure to bring its ban on the sales of new. Most of the locomotives we see pulling trains are diesel electric hybrids.

Kawasaki s hybrid system is a mixture of the toyota and chevrolet car hybrid systems. Where are the hybrid motorcycles. Other hybrid examples are the tvs zeppelin hybrid concept and the american defence advanced research projects agenc y s stealth off road motorcycle powered by a petrol engine and an electric motor. The hero motocorp rnt is a two wheel drive diesel electric hybrid scooter currently under development for the indian market.

Like four leaf clovers of the biker world the best diesel motorcycles are supremely hard to come by and cherished among the few who actually score one. The government still offers the plug in motorcycle grant of 20 of the purchase price of certain electric motorbikes and scooters up to a maximum of 1500 and the ultra low emissions zone in. Energica s ego motorcycle is a powerful italian electric bike that acts and looks the part of a well rounded racer. Hero motocorp s presentation of the rnt hybrid turbo diesel electric motorcycle prototype at auto expo in new delhi last week might well begin a whole new phase in the development of the.