Until now, all the electric bikes made are considered normal, but yesterday history was changed during a press conference at the 2008 NEC Bike Show. The first electric superbike was presented, and is codenamed TTX01.

This opens a new market for a Grand Prix of electric bikes, call it the eco-friendly & emission-free GP. This first superbike prototype uses a Suzuki GSX750 frame, an has two Agni Lynch Electric Motors of 42bhp, which creates a torque power of 125NM.

As for the velocity, the TTX01 only needs 3,5 seconds to go from 0 to 60mph, and has a top speed of 200km/h.

One of the other critically important aspects of the next version of the bike is to have hot swappable batteries. If you want to go racing, no-one is going to charge their battery quickly enough in a pit stop, and it must be hot swappable because the computer-controlled power management system we have on the drawing boards will need rebooting if you cut the power.

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