Make a fashionable and hip lifestyle statement...

[botsapper]

...with a crowd-funded design challenge project. Their goal is realized and will start production of their cooler-than-you $3,800 1900's-styled board track motorcycle. Their zero-emissions Electric Cruiser can travel 20 or more miles on a single-charged battery. Could be up to 40 miles with a second battery. It has a brushless 500W DC 36V rear-wheel drive hub motor WITH regenerative braking. They claim at current configuration it is projected to cost less than $.01 per mile to operate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2DIY9aVNs#t=30

[alvaro84]

Originally Posted by botsapper

...cooler-than-you $3,800 1900's-styled board track motorcycle....

They claim at current configuration it is projected to cost less than $.01 per mile to operate.

So they state that the battery pack lives for at least 380.000 miles while the bike needs no maintenance and electricity is free?

[Grant-53]

The cost for electricity to operate might be less than ten cents per kilowatt - hour. Average annual cost per mile over the life of the vehicle will be closer to twenty cents per mile. Definitely a nostalgic fashion statement that is a viable product based on cost and performance. Rather like a Type 35 Bugatti replica with modern running gear. Cool but not quite my personal dream bike.