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C2I 2021 Automotive Award Winner: White Motorcycle Concepts – WMC250EV

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The winner of this year's Automotive category is testament to an engineer whose radical new motorbike design could not have been realized without a significant supporting cast of collaborators.

Conceived by Rob White, company founder and CEO of Northants-based White Motorcycle Concepts, the idea for the WMC250EV high-speed demonstrator prototype took shape whilst White was an employee at RML Group.

Winner: White Motorcycle Concepts – WMC250EV

Partners: White Motorcycle Concepts with ACE Composites, EY3 Engineering, John Keogh Design, RML and Total Sim

According to Ian Hird, WMC’s commercial director, White’s initial motivation was to achieve a world land speed record - improving a 500cc motorcycle's performance - by incorporating a venturi, a concept applied with great success in F1. It soon became clear, however, that the efficiency gained through this concept could solve a mass-market issue facing the introduction of e-motorcycles, namely that of relative parity against conventional fuels.

Before elaborating on the unique design of the WMC250EV, it is worth noting – said Hird - that the form of the motorcycle has not radically changed since Hildebrand and Wolfmuller introduced the first series production motorcycle in 1894.

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