More info about the new lightening motor cycle

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https://electrek.co/2019/02/14/lightning-strike-electric-motorcycle-motor/
Lightning Motorcycles, the California-based electric superbike manufacturer, has a highly anticipated electric motorcycle debuting next month. So far they’ve shown us a few teasers revealing little more than the headlights. Today though they got generous and are lifting the veil slightly on their upcoming sportbike designed more for the street than the track.

The company shared the first ever photo of the Lightning Strike’s new motor and it revealed even more details than anticipated.


Lightning sent us a teaser photo today meant to highlight the motor in their upcoming $12,998 Strike electric motorcycle.

Along with the photo, the company gave us a little more insight into the design:

“Based on the architecture and innovation in the Lightning LS-218 Superbike, Strike’s motor is fully liquid-cooled and engineered for track-ready performance. As far as we’re aware, LS-218 is currently the only electric motorcycle in the world with the technology and ability run flat-out at qualifying racing speed, pull in for a pit stop to fast charge and continue racing – all without ever overheating. Strike shares these exclusive performance characteristics while being fundamentally designed to be the ultimate street bike.”
The LS-218 electric superbike is Lightning’s first model and the current world record holder for fastest electric motorcycle. It was clocked at a blistering 218 mph (351 km/h) on the Bonneville salt flats. Its cooling system is critical to its performance, and that technology seems to have worked its way into the upcoming Strike model.

Below we can see the first photo of the Strike’s motor.
Lightning-Strike-Motor.jpg
 
$13k USD? That's crazy - if they manage to pull all that off and it's a nice looking bike it should sell pretty well you'd have to imagine.
 
"Leaked" info: https://electrek.co/2019/03/25/lightning-strike-electric-motorcycle-specs-leaked/

According to Lightning, none of the info released in this "leak" is correct for the strike this week as it was just a protoype bike on the LS-218 body and frame.

lightning-strike-static-right.jpg


The real info is supposed to be released (officially) this week.
 
Worth looking at the entire article: https://electrek.co/2019/03/28/lightning-strike-electric-motorcycle-launch/

Bit sad that the 13k version isn't 150miles in range - not surprised but a bit sad none the less. :lol:

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No news on distribution outside of the US either.
 
Will be interesting to see how it goes considering it will be completely manufactured in China.

I notice it's taken a big power hit compared to the LS218 - Only way to get respectable range is to replace motor volume with battery volume I guess.
 
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