Enertia: The Electric Motorcycle

Brammo Motorsports

was founded in 2002 to focus on research and development that would enable us to excel in the manufacturing of specialty performance vehicles. Our integration of digital engineering, tightly meshed with innovative industrial and production design, allows us to be prolific in product development. Creating compelling, sustainable transportation that is fun to use is our goal.

 Brammo Motorsports bring us Enertia: The Electric Motorcycle

In 2005 to further develop our design and production processes, we began manufacturing the Ariel Atom, a ground breaking sports car concept by British designer Simon Sauders. The Atom is a lightweight vehicle based on GM's Ecotec engines and provides a ultra high performance driving experience with a small displacement and fuel-efficient power plant. Comedian and uber car collector Jay Leno says, "I've had my Atom for a few months now. I love it. It's actually my favourite car in terms of driving." We have designed a new product line of plug-in electric motorcycles named Enertia™. The Enertia is an all electric, plug-in motorcycle with a 40+ mile range and 50+ mile per hour top speed.

Leveraging formula racecar technology the Enertia utilizes a carbon-fibre chassis

producing an ultra strong and lightweight vehicle platform of just 275 pounds. This ground breaking chassis design combined with the most powerful lithium-phosphate batteries in the world from supplier Valence Technology has produced an emissions free commuter motorcycle designed for today.

Brammo is located in Ashland, Oregon.

Performance Specs

With a low moment of inertia and agressive rake angle, this motorcycle handles like a dream and has an affinity for changing direction. Couple that with the smooth, efficient power delivery from the electric drivetrain, and you've got a recipe for excitement. With 100% of it’s torque available from 0 rpm, the Enertia is certainly no slouch off the line. At it’s quickest setting, the Enertia will sprint from 0 to 30 mph in 3.8 seconds! Beyond the obvious of empowering customers to enjoy guilt-free transporation, Brammo wants to empower customers to set their own performance limits on the Enertia. If you’re a beginner or would like to achieve maximum range on every ride, perhaps you should start at a lower power setting than someone with either a very short commute or an ambitious right wrist. Our Momentum software will enable you to download information about your driving habits from the Enertia and customize your bike to the performance setting that fits you and your environment best. Why design an electric motorcycle when gas motorcycles are already so efficient? Right?... Not quite! Compared to your run-of-the-mill car, a motorcycle is about double the efficiency, but compared to the Enertia, the average motorcycle loses by a huge margin. Modern motorcycles currently produce up to 15 times the emissions per mile as the average new car or light-duty truck! Even the California Air Resources Board has tightened emissions regulations for motorcylce manufacturers to bring them in line with emissions on other road vehicles. The Enertia solves both issues with a more efficient drivetrain versus a conventional motorcycle and far less "well to wheel" emissions. "Well to Wheel" studies allow us to truly compare "apples to apples" when it comes to evaluating the energy efficiency or emissions of a particular vehicle. Since there is energy expended to bring fuel to the consumer, be it gas or electricity, you must consider the entire system of energy rather than just the single vehicle's energy consumption. Naturally, an electic vehicle emits no emissions during operation (often referred to as a ZEV or "Zero Emissions Vehicle"). However, the energy that is stored in the batteries was generated at some point from either a coal, nuclear, wind, solar, or hydro-electric generation plant. So... when we compare the Enertia to other vehicles, we always make sure we take into account the full energy equation on both sides.

Global Warming is here. We’ve all contributed, and now we have a great opportunity to make a difference. With the amazing "Well to Wheel" energy efficiency of the Enertia, commuting to work even for part of the year on an Enertia would drastically reduce your carbon footprint as the graph below illustrates…

Source- http://www.enertiabike.com/