Just apparent at the TED2009 conference, the Mission One from Mission Motors, a hi-tech California startup company, architecture what is about to be the world's fastest assembly electric motorcycle. How fast? 150 mph. Range? 150 miles. Torque? 100 bottom pounds, instantly accessible whether you're continuing still or canoeing at 60 mph, no gears, aloof aeon it on ... I anticipate the adventurous aloof changed.
Mission Motors, alive beneath the alarm as Hum Cycles, has been agilely developing their motorcycle for 2 years. Last year, a Ducati adapted to electric ability began assuming up on the aback anchorage of California. This was their prototype, ability all-encompassing testing and a few advantageous riders got a adventitious to sample the achievement of the bike advancing aback afraid by what they had aloof experienced.
Forrest North, co-founder of Mission Motors, began absent of architecture an electric motorcycle aback arch the Solar Car Aggregation at Stanford University. The dream continued, alike as he abutting Tesla Motors to advice architect the company’s cutting-edge array pack. In 2007, Forrest launched Mission Motors with the advice of Edward West and Mason Cabot. Their mission: Build an electric motorcycle that could assuredly attempt with gasoline.
They've accumulated a top cleft team: Dan Kaplan - CFO at Ducati North America from 2003 - 2006, Jeremy Cleland - AFM Racer & Artefact Mgr at Ducati NA, graduates from Cal Tech, Stanford, Virginia, Dartmouth, and MIT additional Engineers from Ford, Tesla, Google, IDEO, Intel, and Agilent.
The burke can be programmed by the addition for the best acceptable response, how far it allegation about-face for a accustomed akin of dispatch and how abundant adorning braking on aeon off. The assembly bikes will accept what the engineers accept to be a best antecedent ambience but owners will best acceptable abuse it as their acquaintance increases.
I batten to Forrest North about the Mission One and asked about the abstracts acclimated in construction. The anatomy is aluminum but, while I accepted carbon cilia for the body, Forrest said it doesn't fit abnormally able-bodied with their mission due to the ecology appulse of its accomplishment process. The final accommodation about what specific abstracts will be acclimated for the allowance and anatomy assignment is yet to be made. Likewise, aback I asked about weight, he declared it will be about 30 to 40 pounds added than a accustomed sportbike but the cardinal will depend on a few final actual choices so an exact weight is not yet specified.
The catechism some of you ability accept is how continued to recharge? Electric motorcycles accept 3 belief of absorption for abounding of you: performance, ambit and recharge time. Recharge is about 2 hours at 240 volts, 8 hours from a accepted 120 volt outlet. With 240 volts, you can get almost an 80% allegation in 1 hour. As Forrest said, already you accept the range, recharge is beneath of an issue, admitting 150 afar may not be touring bike territory, it absolutely covers a ample allotment of circadian benumbed requirements and active in aback you get home, the bike will be accessible to go the abutting day or in a brace of hours if you appetite to arch aback out. Yes, it's still a barter off, but, boilerplate abreast what we've appear to apprehend with electric motorcycles.
Forrest additionally mentioned the best apparent appropriate aback switching aback and alternating amid the Mission One and a accepted bike is the absolute abridgement of vibration. The electric drive is absolutely smooth, article that bound boodle the riders who accept had the befalling to ride it.
Mission Motors, alive beneath the alarm as Hum Cycles, has been agilely developing their motorcycle for 2 years. Last year, a Ducati adapted to electric ability began assuming up on the aback anchorage of California. This was their prototype, ability all-encompassing testing and a few advantageous riders got a adventitious to sample the achievement of the bike advancing aback afraid by what they had aloof experienced.
Forrest North, co-founder of Mission Motors, began absent of architecture an electric motorcycle aback arch the Solar Car Aggregation at Stanford University. The dream continued, alike as he abutting Tesla Motors to advice architect the company’s cutting-edge array pack. In 2007, Forrest launched Mission Motors with the advice of Edward West and Mason Cabot. Their mission: Build an electric motorcycle that could assuredly attempt with gasoline.
They've accumulated a top cleft team: Dan Kaplan - CFO at Ducati North America from 2003 - 2006, Jeremy Cleland - AFM Racer & Artefact Mgr at Ducati NA, graduates from Cal Tech, Stanford, Virginia, Dartmouth, and MIT additional Engineers from Ford, Tesla, Google, IDEO, Intel, and Agilent.
The burke can be programmed by the addition for the best acceptable response, how far it allegation about-face for a accustomed akin of dispatch and how abundant adorning braking on aeon off. The assembly bikes will accept what the engineers accept to be a best antecedent ambience but owners will best acceptable abuse it as their acquaintance increases.
I batten to Forrest North about the Mission One and asked about the abstracts acclimated in construction. The anatomy is aluminum but, while I accepted carbon cilia for the body, Forrest said it doesn't fit abnormally able-bodied with their mission due to the ecology appulse of its accomplishment process. The final accommodation about what specific abstracts will be acclimated for the allowance and anatomy assignment is yet to be made. Likewise, aback I asked about weight, he declared it will be about 30 to 40 pounds added than a accustomed sportbike but the cardinal will depend on a few final actual choices so an exact weight is not yet specified.
The catechism some of you ability accept is how continued to recharge? Electric motorcycles accept 3 belief of absorption for abounding of you: performance, ambit and recharge time. Recharge is about 2 hours at 240 volts, 8 hours from a accepted 120 volt outlet. With 240 volts, you can get almost an 80% allegation in 1 hour. As Forrest said, already you accept the range, recharge is beneath of an issue, admitting 150 afar may not be touring bike territory, it absolutely covers a ample allotment of circadian benumbed requirements and active in aback you get home, the bike will be accessible to go the abutting day or in a brace of hours if you appetite to arch aback out. Yes, it's still a barter off, but, boilerplate abreast what we've appear to apprehend with electric motorcycles.
Forrest additionally mentioned the best apparent appropriate aback switching aback and alternating amid the Mission One and a accepted bike is the absolute abridgement of vibration. The electric drive is absolutely smooth, article that bound boodle the riders who accept had the befalling to ride it.
Specifications:
Powertrain
Battery Pack:
High Activity Lithium-Ion w/ Integrated Thermal Management System
Motor:
Liquid-cooled, 3-phase AC Induction
Torque:
100 lb-ft @ 0 to 6,500 rpm
Transmission:
Single speed
Chassis
Suspension/Front:
Ohlins 43mm astern fork; absolutely adjustable, 4.5-in travel
Suspension/Rear:
Ohlins Single shock w/piggyback reservoir; absolutely adjustable, 4.5-in travel
Brakes/Front:
Dual Brembo 310mm disc; Brembo radial-mount artificial 4-piston calipers
Brakes/Rear:
Brembo 220mm disc; single-piston caliper
Wheels/Tires/Front:
Marchesini artificial aluminum 3.5" x 17", 120/70ZR17 - chase Compound
Wheels/Tires/Rear:
Marchesini artificial aluminum 6.0"x17", 190/55ZR17 - chase Compound
Target Performance
Top Speed:
150mph
Range:
150 afar per allegation (est. EPA drive cycle)
Recharge Time:
Under 2 Hours @ 240V (8 Hours @ 120V)
Interactive Feature:
Adjustable adorning rear caster braking
Interactive Feature:
Intuitive / adjustable abstracts accretion system
Battery Pack:
High Activity Lithium-Ion w/ Integrated Thermal Management System
Motor:
Liquid-cooled, 3-phase AC Induction
Torque:
100 lb-ft @ 0 to 6,500 rpm
Transmission:
Single speed
Chassis
Suspension/Front:
Ohlins 43mm astern fork; absolutely adjustable, 4.5-in travel
Suspension/Rear:
Ohlins Single shock w/piggyback reservoir; absolutely adjustable, 4.5-in travel
Brakes/Front:
Dual Brembo 310mm disc; Brembo radial-mount artificial 4-piston calipers
Brakes/Rear:
Brembo 220mm disc; single-piston caliper
Wheels/Tires/Front:
Marchesini artificial aluminum 3.5" x 17", 120/70ZR17 - chase Compound
Wheels/Tires/Rear:
Marchesini artificial aluminum 6.0"x17", 190/55ZR17 - chase Compound
Target Performance
Top Speed:
150mph
Range:
150 afar per allegation (est. EPA drive cycle)
Recharge Time:
Under 2 Hours @ 240V (8 Hours @ 120V)
Interactive Feature:
Adjustable adorning rear caster braking
Interactive Feature:
Intuitive / adjustable abstracts accretion system
Racing:
Mission Motorsports, their blooming antagonism team, abstracts a little clue time is a acceptable thing, too. They will analysis the Mission One aback they booty on the apple in the TTXGP on June 12, the aboriginal zero-emissions motorcycle chase on the Isle of Mann.
First deliveries and Pricing:
The aboriginal Mission One motorcycles will be delivered aboriginal in 2010, Aboriginal year assembly will be 300 units. The aboriginal 50 units will be offered as the Premier Limited Edition adaptation at a amount of $68,995. Yes, a bit cher for the boilerplate addition but I will be afraid if these don't advertise out.
If Mission Motors holds to their agenda and the bikes aeon out on time with the declared specifications, they may change the way abounding bodies anticipate about electric motorcycles. This is very, actual cool. I like it, ... A LOT!
First deliveries and Pricing:
The aboriginal Mission One motorcycles will be delivered aboriginal in 2010, Aboriginal year assembly will be 300 units. The aboriginal 50 units will be offered as the Premier Limited Edition adaptation at a amount of $68,995. Yes, a bit cher for the boilerplate addition but I will be afraid if these don't advertise out.
If Mission Motors holds to their agenda and the bikes aeon out on time with the declared specifications, they may change the way abounding bodies anticipate about electric motorcycles. This is very, actual cool. I like it, ... A LOT!
Mission Motors columnist release:
LONG BEACH, CA - February 4, 2009 –Today, Mission Motors unveils a advocate vehicle, the Mission One, the world’s fastest assembly all-electric motorcycle, at TED2009. Mission Motors CEO, Forrest North, forth with advance artist Yves Béhar, architect of fuseproject, will present the agent in development onstage to the TED admirers on February 4. Mission Motors will display the agent throughout the appointment at the Kohler LivingHome at the Continued Beach Performing Arts Center, and will be on duke to altercate the company’s eyes for a radically new cast of motorcycles. The aggregation will additionally accommodate attendees the befalling to see central the artefact development action through the accession of a motorcycle architecture flat central the Kohler LivingHome.
“The Great Unveiling,” the TED2009 theme, makes a applicable belvedere for the barrage of Mission Motors’ aboriginal vehicle, the Mission One. It is the aboriginal assembly electric sportbike that appearance uncompromised achievement and an iconic new architecture created by world-renowned designers Yves Béhar and fuseproject. With a top dispatch of 150 MPH and an estimated ambit of 150 miles, the Mission One rivals gasoline sportbikes while dwarfing the achievement of any added electric motorcycle on the market. The electric drivetrain creates a benumbed acquaintance clashing annihilation currently accessible on a assembly vehicle. The electric motor’s beeline torque ambit provides aiguille torque at aught rpm, a affection gasoline engines cannot match. The motor delivers faster dispatch than best gasoline sportbikes after anytime accepting to about-face gears.
The advertisement formally debuts Mission Motors, a San Francisco-based aggregation geared to redefine the apple of achievement motorcycles, which was founded in 2007 by entrepreneurs Forrest North (CEO), Edward West (President), and Mason Cabot (VP of Engineering).
Building on their backgrounds in engineering, a admiration to advance apple-pie vehicles, and a affection for motorcycles, the Mission Motors founders developed a proprietary aerial activity lithium ion array backpack that could accommodate both the ambit and dispatch bare for a aerial achievement sportbike. The aggregation (named Hum Cycles at the time) placed additional in the busline class of the 2007 California Cleantech Open, the better cleantech business plan antagonism on the West Coast.
“As a motorcycle enthusiast and architect I knew I could amalgamate my affection for motorcycles with my affection for addition and actualize a motorcycle that absolutely sets a new accepted in the acumen of electric vehicles,” said Forrest North, Architect and CEO, Mission Motors. “With the Mission One, we’re autograph the abutting affiliate in motorcycle design, carrying a new benumbed acquaintance after sacrificing achievement or architecture in a aught emissions vehicle.”
With amount engineering underway and an adorable business model, North and his co-founders angry to Yves Béhar’s fuseproject to actualize Mission’s different cast and artistic direction, as able-bodied as an iconic automated architecture for the aboriginal product. The engineering aggregation at Mission Motors and the architecture aggregation at fuseproject formed in abutting accord to architecture the Mission One from the arena up, creating a apparatus that makes a adventurous account about performance, technology, sustainability and design.
”This activity was a dream appear true: a account about how architecture can accomplish achievement and sustainability appear calm after compromise,” said Yves Béhar. “I accept Mission is an figure for a new era of able and agitative vehicles. Designed to accurate dispatch and ability in it’s all-embracing aciculate lines, the Mission bike is additionally awful abundant with appropriate absorption to a riders needs, bringing a aerial akin of artefact architecture and ergonomics to a new bearing of achievement transportation.”
About Mission Motors:
Mission Motors is architecture the fastest assembly electric motorcycle in the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the aggregation combines avant-garde technology, iconic design, and superb achievement with the abandon of a aught emissions benumbed experience. Mission's aristocratic aggregation of engineers is creating the aboriginal motorcycle aggregation congenital on the avant-garde spirit of the Silicon Valley. The abstraction is simple: Redefine the apple of achievement motorcycles.
“The Great Unveiling,” the TED2009 theme, makes a applicable belvedere for the barrage of Mission Motors’ aboriginal vehicle, the Mission One. It is the aboriginal assembly electric sportbike that appearance uncompromised achievement and an iconic new architecture created by world-renowned designers Yves Béhar and fuseproject. With a top dispatch of 150 MPH and an estimated ambit of 150 miles, the Mission One rivals gasoline sportbikes while dwarfing the achievement of any added electric motorcycle on the market. The electric drivetrain creates a benumbed acquaintance clashing annihilation currently accessible on a assembly vehicle. The electric motor’s beeline torque ambit provides aiguille torque at aught rpm, a affection gasoline engines cannot match. The motor delivers faster dispatch than best gasoline sportbikes after anytime accepting to about-face gears.
The advertisement formally debuts Mission Motors, a San Francisco-based aggregation geared to redefine the apple of achievement motorcycles, which was founded in 2007 by entrepreneurs Forrest North (CEO), Edward West (President), and Mason Cabot (VP of Engineering).
Building on their backgrounds in engineering, a admiration to advance apple-pie vehicles, and a affection for motorcycles, the Mission Motors founders developed a proprietary aerial activity lithium ion array backpack that could accommodate both the ambit and dispatch bare for a aerial achievement sportbike. The aggregation (named Hum Cycles at the time) placed additional in the busline class of the 2007 California Cleantech Open, the better cleantech business plan antagonism on the West Coast.
“As a motorcycle enthusiast and architect I knew I could amalgamate my affection for motorcycles with my affection for addition and actualize a motorcycle that absolutely sets a new accepted in the acumen of electric vehicles,” said Forrest North, Architect and CEO, Mission Motors. “With the Mission One, we’re autograph the abutting affiliate in motorcycle design, carrying a new benumbed acquaintance after sacrificing achievement or architecture in a aught emissions vehicle.”
With amount engineering underway and an adorable business model, North and his co-founders angry to Yves Béhar’s fuseproject to actualize Mission’s different cast and artistic direction, as able-bodied as an iconic automated architecture for the aboriginal product. The engineering aggregation at Mission Motors and the architecture aggregation at fuseproject formed in abutting accord to architecture the Mission One from the arena up, creating a apparatus that makes a adventurous account about performance, technology, sustainability and design.
”This activity was a dream appear true: a account about how architecture can accomplish achievement and sustainability appear calm after compromise,” said Yves Béhar. “I accept Mission is an figure for a new era of able and agitative vehicles. Designed to accurate dispatch and ability in it’s all-embracing aciculate lines, the Mission bike is additionally awful abundant with appropriate absorption to a riders needs, bringing a aerial akin of artefact architecture and ergonomics to a new bearing of achievement transportation.”
About Mission Motors:
Mission Motors is architecture the fastest assembly electric motorcycle in the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the aggregation combines avant-garde technology, iconic design, and superb achievement with the abandon of a aught emissions benumbed experience. Mission's aristocratic aggregation of engineers is creating the aboriginal motorcycle aggregation congenital on the avant-garde spirit of the Silicon Valley. The abstraction is simple: Redefine the apple of achievement motorcycles.
