Electric motorbike prototype

via Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan

The electric motorbike prototype in the video is able to reach 150 km/h, while the battery charging time is only 6 hours and has autonomy of 200 km. It will cost around 3.000 euros and will be released to the Japanese market next year.

The motorbike design reminds me of the motorbikes in the movie Akira.

The YikeBike

via Designboom - Weblog

The YikeBike by inventor Grant Ryan and engineer Peter Higgins of New Zealand, is a mini-farthing bike designed to battle the increasing urban congestion of today. The carbon fiber frame is the foldable and weighs under 10kg. YikeBike's electronic motor allows you to travel at speeds up to 20 kph. The design means that your feet remain static on the footrests and your fingers work the accelerator and a brake.

The YikeBike can comfortably be ridden by anyone from 160cm to 195cm (5�3� to 6'5"). There is no need to adjust the seat because you do not pedal � your height relative to the seat is only important to how much your knees are bent when riding. the bike can comfortably take a rider (and personal effects) weighing up to 100kg.





The development of the concept can be found at www.minifarthing.com.

Bike of the future will pay you back for all of that pedalling

via DVICE by Michael Trei on 7/26/09

This amazing bike concept is part exercise machine, part electric scooter, and will even help to pay your fare while providing a seat for the bus ride home. Designed by M�rten W�llgren, Il Choi, David Seesing, and Miika Hekkinen, it's the centerpiece of a car free concept for central London called London Garden, and winner of the Seymour Powell award in a contest called Future City Mobility.

The bike has solar panels inside the hubless wheels, which along with your pedaling power charge a battery that can drive the bike as an electric scooter. The really cool part, is that the designers also envision electric buses with docks for the folded bikes, that will tap your charged battery to help run the bus in exchange for bus fare.

The concept goes further, with tree like bus shelters where the bikes can be storedup in the air, and where the blowing breeze moving the stored bikes around will also generate electricity.

This all sounds a bit utopian, and doesn't really take into account people who aren't able to ride bikes, but 'm sure some parts of the design have real world potential.