Back in October, 2021, CAKE and European energy company Vattenfall first publicly announced their intention to build a totally fossil-free electric motorcycle by the year 2025. At the time, the pair of companies acknowledged that greenwashing is a problem with electric vehicles, and that simply creating vehicles that emit zero carbon during operation isn’t enough.
To really get to the heart of the problem, they said, OEMs need to decarbonize the entire production process. If decarbonization is the goal, then that line of thinking absolutely stands to reason—but it’s also a major undertaking. That’s why CAKE and Vattenfall’s first task was to actually calculate what kind of emissions go into crafting just one existing CAKE motorcycle. Since they’ve officially named the project “The Cleanest Dirt Bike Ever,” they chose the CAKE Kalk OR as their test subject.
