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TTXGP - World's First Electric Motorcycle Race

submitted by antonye

1 decade 4 years 11 months 1 week ago

Isle of Man
, 2009

2009 is "Year Zero" for the TTXGP - the World's First Zero Carbon, Clean Emission Grand Prix.

Run at the historic Isle of Man TT races, teams from all over the world have entered electric motorcycles to compete on one lap of the 37 mile circuit.

This clip gives some build-up to the races, interviewing teams and riders.

5 Comments

imstellar28 says...

I'd definitely buy one. Sounds like a freaking f-15.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnjWGHdSZoU

Update on the race results, as posted in the other clip which includes on-board footage:

The winning bike (Team Agni) did an average speed of 87.434 mph over the 37.7 mile course, while Thomas Schoenfelder on the XXL Racing Team entry clocked the highest speed through the Sulby speed trap of 106.5mph, the only rider to exceed 100mph, which is pretty bloody amazing given that this race (and these bikes) didn't even exist a year ago!

According to MCN:
Team Agni’s bike is a 2007 Suzuki GSXR 600 fitted with two Agni 95 Reinforced motors and Kokam lithium-polymer battery of 63 cells of 70AH each, totalling about 16 kilowatt-hours of energy. The team says the setup gives 40 to 50 horsepower averaged over the length of the race, which should be good for about 200 km/h (120 mph) top speed.

Moving this video to antonye's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg - oh for one more vote!

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter antonye.

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