Video of the week: high-speed e-motorcycle races through trials
The company aiming to set new land speed records with its electric motorcycle has completed initial trials of its WMC250EV high-speed demonstrator.
Northants-based White Motorcycle Concepts is taking its electric motorcycle to Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flat next summer where it will be ridden in an attempt on the world land speed record.
The carbon-fibre prototype is said to have run without fault during its shakedown test at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground and has now completed a full system pass off.
Prototype electric motorcycle set for tilt at land speed records
A striking feature of the WMC250EV is WMC’s V-Air ultra-low drag system which uses a large duct at the centre of the bike to force air through the vehicle, reducing aerodynamic resistance by 70 per cent compared to a conventional motorcycle. The front wheel is powered by the bike’s D-Drive, which makes it possible to harness regenerative braking energy.
In its final powertrain configuration, the WMC250EV will feature an 800V high voltage system, but WMC said that for the early testing phase it is using a 60V system that produces 100kW. WMC anticipate that in world land speed specification the bike will be two and a half times more powerful.
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