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Electric Motorcycles

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Electric Motorcycles

Published: Fri, 6 Mar 2009

Description: Zero Motorcycles founder Neal Saiki joins FOX Car Report LIVE!

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" Thank you end -- they would -- particular go out to California. All of Skype I think we're hooked up got -- think. Psyche is that the right way to say that's going to make sure it it is right. That was correct -- he feels like he's the founder of zero motorcycles. Now you're motorcycles don't have any to talk about displacement over here you've got an electric motor bike right. That's crank -- battery and -- responsible got a right behind there as well -- grim pictures also. -- to bring up the zero X that is the current -- you have months ago this one is off road motorcycle right correct. This is an all new version for 2009 cents a it's a refinement of an offer on site and making fifty years ago. What's the price on the especially 500 dollars this is yeah that's about a hundred with the charger and battery everything you'd want. Tell me some of the specifications because that's essentially the it's probably the equivalent of like by a 250 motor cross site is that right."

" It is an answer that's the most important thing. That our buyers mostly. Sympathy motorcycle riders and the thing goes there -- sixty four seconds. It's very fast -- the power to that these but he was inevitable. Getting off the line from Clinton. As it goes fast -- fees and intelligence. But it's it's like 5050 that a lot lighter it's only. Sounds. Two. He's. And you could drive is about -- two hours on -- George that's crazy yet. Yeah that lasts as long like and one half an hour opera nine and tortures them you know my -- stuff. I'm not only the end kids can right. Yeah. Now is looking at the specs it steered the battery pack two kilowatt hours that's actually more than some mild hybrid cars that this with the alliance's next generation stuff. It is because. And we really wanted to make high performance motorcycle accident where we're not really interested in the low performance marketers -- yours Monica. Think of motorcycles that we enjoy building rioting so look you know put a lot of power America but even you know not have a couple kilowatt hour -- still awful yet. About forty cents -- was -- so not -- They started out designing. Regular mountain -- I think he took some here background and that to make this for quite well this it weighs about fifty -- expert. It is we estimate every part on this thing. And yeah I love that one of the early designers of full suspension not -- because I. I work with motorcycles for a long time and I brought full suspension. Designed to mama industry. Maybe that little popular now really want to do what's -- Anybody doing any free Stiller present this thing. Well but if you people you know we -- the best use this motorcycles trail motorcycles -- fast and maneuverable and those -- for Spezza. Not be stuff. You know it's. Bone breaking kind of stuff that you got to have great. And that this is offered by what you are playing a very street legal version. Exe is to street legal it's straight up street by correct in the near future that is. That is correct that's a big news here we're gonna beta announcement. Next month that we have a bicycle moto. Version of a motorcycle that's that's all mean it's actually -- parks and come home it's it's and he'd step -- and we're pretty excited about. Evidently we have -- picture this is it's got to zero that's correct. That's correct and -- positioning this as a a super. Yes and have a lot of suspension travel. So especially urban environments like around San Cisco that you can go up and down firms and stairs and write it into elevators things like that for -- writing it really makes it convenient to arm and this is an out of tight spaces so you want something that's very durable and lightweight and right. Same kind of power same engineered completely. It's it's including news or hasn't figured we kilowatt hour -- I'm more top -- certain amount our top speed and more range I just got more than -- It's a bigger motorcycle was 200 pounds at least a little bit more than our our offer by -- a lot less. And then comparable to motorcycles it's still very easy right no bravery quick stop what stop like. It's it's leaked out."

" Now electric bikes like electric cars -- real limiting factor isn't so much the motors it is that battery pack. And if you were able to get if reverend double -- kilowatt hours that's 263 acres of like that how much faster can make this fight just with and do. It's I mean with the election lowered its."

" Well we we have a special patented technology. In our battery pack things that we really elements -- who have been able to really utilize that in fact -- We have more power per weight or size and -- electric vehicle battery --"

" We really got that -- the thing is incredibly fast and effective had to work hard to tone it down making I thought he could he -- For the general public but."

" The earlier versions of the motorcycles so rocket after brewer was reeling them. But the old backwards so we've got all the -- you can. Use and in fact we're not hard to make them more controllable more user."

" All right -- thank you for under zero motorcycles thanks for joining us really appreciate you. Commented this -- would -- in the sky."

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