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new electric honda motorcycles announcement release
Looking for an electric Honda motorcycle to buy in the near future? It looks like your day is coming… but how soon? Will Honda’s 2022 motorcycle lineup include an electric bike or will it be 2023 and beyond before we see an electric motorcycle out of Honda? Don’t forget to check out the bottom of the page and let me know your opinion on electric motorcycles and the future of gas engines with a couple of questions I bring up on this very polarizing topic in the powersports industry.To get more news about evehicle, you can visit davincimotor.com official website.
Just as new Honda patent documents are released showing that Honda is still working on electric motorcycles, we have this press release (below) dropped from Honda of Europe:Honda announced today that the company has signed a letter of intent with KTM AG, Piaggio & C SpA and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. to set up a Swappable Batteries Consortium for Motorcycles and Light Electric Vehicles.
In the context of the Paris Climate Agreement and the transition to electromobility, the founding members of the Consortium believe that the availability of a standardized swappable battery system would both promote the widespread use of light electric vehicles and contribute to a more sustainable life-cycle management of batteries used in the transport sector. Also, by extending the range, shortening the charging time and lowering vehicle and infrastructure costs, the manufacturers will try to answer customers’ main concerns regarding the future of electromobility.
The aim of the Consortium will, therefore, be to define the standardized technical specifications of the swappable battery system for vehicles belonging to the L-category; mopeds, motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles. By working closely with interested stakeholders and national, European and international standardization bodies, the founding members of the Consortium will be involved in the creation of international technical standards.The Consortium will start its activities in May 2021. The four founding members encourage all interested stakeholders to join the cooperation to enrich the Consortium’s expertise.
What does this mean? Honda is definitely still hard at work on bring electric to their powersports side of the business and even though we’ve seen patent documents for years now with nothing to come out of them yet, doesn’t mean Honda isn’t still hard at work to make sure the final production form is as good as it gets. At least, that’s what we hope the reasoning is when they take a while to develop something new. What makes it interesting is that we’re adding in multiple manufacturers to the mix to development a standardized and swappable battery pack which should drive down development costs which in return should hopefully be cheaper for us. What does it all really mean though? We don’t know haha. We know they are still working on developing what they consider to be the best package but we’ll have to wait and see what happens and they plan to start their “activities” in May of 2021. Now, let’s talk a little more about the new patent documents that were just released by Honda on taking a CB125R and turning it electric below…