As someone who loves electric motorcycles, they have a big problem: range. While electric cars and trucks can hide range issues with larger and larger batteries underneath the floorboards, the same can't be done with electric motorcycles, where weight and size come at a premium. There's just no room for big batteries.
So, since their inception, electric motorcycles have had to make do with abysmal range, which has caused their popularity to basically be nil. I mean, I hop onto a motorcycle for the freedom of the open road, not to plan a 25-stop slog-fest while hypermiling to the next town over. It's why I think, at present, the only EV motorcycles that make sense are dirt bikes where range doesn't really matter past 100 miles.
But Stark Futures, the folks who make the Varg dirt bikes, and have teased a host of upcoming on-road bikes, want more for the future. The company wants real-world on-road electric motorcycles that don't suck the joy out of motorcycling. They want a fast-charging, big-range, real motorcycle, and the company is partnering with a Chinese battery company to bring that future to reality.
