Max chasing 330km/h e-speed record
Bolivian salt flats the site for Voxan Motors' bid to claim electric motorbike world recordFormer MotoGP star Max Biaggi will try to set a new electric motorbike land speed record aboard the Voxan Motors “Wattman”
Biaggi will be chasing the record of 327.6km/h set by Jim Hoogerhyde in 2013 aboard the Lightning SB220 electric motorbike.
Voxan touts the Wattman as “the most powerful electric motorcycle in the world” and says the machine extracts 150kW and 200Nm from a motor that spins at up to 10,500rpm.
The 0-100km/h time is a claimed 5.9 seconds and says the range from the lithium-ion batteries is around 180km, with a 30-minute recharge to 80 per cent battery capacity.
Biaggi has already started work on the project and says: “the engineers and designers from the R&D department are driven by an extremely motivating sense of determination. Breaking through the 330 km/h mark together with this machine will provide even more evidence of the group's expertise in this field."
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