Citroën’s Survolt electric concept car has full carbon bodywork and twin electric motors giving it a top speed of 162mph. 0-62mph takes less than five seconds and the 140kg lithium-ion battery gives a range of 124 miles. Recharging is said to take two hours with a specific power supply or 10 hours from a standard socket
VERY VERY NICE the car aint bad too:P
Yeah - possibly too much attention on the bint at the start! 
Range of 124 miles is pathetic for such a car. The whole point of smart electric cars in the city is that 99% of journies made in a city are short journies. On an average day I don’t even get close to driving my GS500 50 miles, I think it is probably closer to 15 miles.
Come the weekend when I bust out the GSXR I have been known to cover 500 miles in a day. A car such as that one, sporty looks, fast, carbon fibre body. What is the point if you can only do a 60 mile trip (remember you got to get back too) in a single day.
Can’t even drive to Clacton and home.
I notice they didn’t show the bit where she reverses into a stationary object, then throws it forwards into the path of a cyclist! 
Nice looking car, but totally useless! It can go very fast, if you don’t mind turning around after the first ten minutes so you can get home and charge it!
Electric vehicles… You can’t polish a turd!.. 
Ok the range is sh1t - and there are still all the issues with weight and the rare metals needed for the batteries etc - but if major companies like this are putting this much effort and thought into cars like this then surely there must be some future in non combustion transport?
The pace of tech change is getting faster and faster - remember in 1903 the wrights flew the kitty hawk a few feet above the sand - 66 years later they are walking on the f*cking moon - that is mind blowing.
We can and should apply that level of innovation to our personal transport - we actually don’t really have a choice anyway.
Actually you can polish a turd.
Suzukis been at the hybrid end of things with the crosscage:
https://www.youtube.com/v/ItRA5L6s0Jw&hl=en_GB&fs=1?rel=0
If you talking bikes I think that makes sense, and this bike looks pretty good.
That KTM/Mavizen is incredible!
Defintely the future I reckon - and so cheap to run - I might as well be putting chanel no 05 in my tank these days it’s getting so expensive!
I would buy that mavizen, especially if you could plug it into a normal household socket.
They say in that video that they put in 60p worth for 80 miles, but they don’t really go into details about how many miles the bike can do on a single charge or the recharge time or the manner in which it is recharged.
Also you have to make it road legal yourself as the bike is for motorsport use only…still the tech is there. Maybe the major manufacturers will take it onboard.
Only a matter of time - the oil thing is so last century and everyone knows it - I don’t think you can poo poo performance like that - and once the major manufacturers start getting involved you will have electric GSXRS capable of petrol type performance if that’s what the public wants.
I dont believe electric cars are the future. The limited range of a battery and requirement to stop and wait a number of hours for a recharge makes them a very limited option IMO - as above, their use is pretty much for city use or a few hours fun only.
I think the research should be pumped into hydrogen fuel cells. Cars are already being built that use this technology and they still use a classic four stroke setup so the required engineering isn’t such a huge step.
This would also mean a car / bike could be filled up with hydrogen as you would at a normal petrol station and so no limits to your travel time or distance. In fact I think its only a minor modification to make existing machines run on it. Just need the petrol stations to stock it though.
And dont forget with any of this technology theres always a power station on the other end of it.
Not necessarily.
Firstly, the weight, recharge time and power capacity of the batteries will improve over time, just like computers have got faster, I refer your comments back to the early 1950s when people were saying computers are just a fad and won’t fix anything because they take up an entire room and need a small power station to run.
Now we can carry them around in our bags.
Technology will advance, and electric cars are the future.
While there will always be a source of the electricity it need not always be a dirty power station that is creating waste. If developments continue in solar power and there is an effort to equip homes with solar panels it could be that you charge your car from your own power generation.
Of course there is still the waste of creating the cars and the solar panels…etc etc, and I think that is something we will have to learn to deal with. We will create, we will innovate and we will create waste. The plan cannot be to stop doing that and go back to live in caves, wandering from forest to forest, the plan has to be to do it in a sustainable way.
Erm, how do you think hydrogen is produced then? Imagine if it became more widely used too, don’t get me wrong I think the hydrogen cell is great and a step forward but I don’t believe it’s significantly better than battery.
Ian
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there’s no point looking at electric vehicles while the power plants that produce their electricity still pump out more pollution in a hour than my bike does in a week.
and the “carbon” footprint of transportng all those rare components backwards and forwards across the globe has to be huge. Before it can become a viable “green” alternative they have a lot more issues to sort rather than performance and looks.
That was a nice video, although from the title of the thread (and the pumping soundtrack), I was expecting some movement other than that of the girl being used to distract me from the car.
The whole ‘alternative fuel’ debate is a little like the ‘cigarettes’ thing - the companies and government have a vested interest in the status quo as there is a lot of money to be made. Oil companies will eventually lose their grip on the world as it all runs out and can only be afforded by the rich.
After a few years of early adopters buy and field testing electric vehicles and the ‘big four’ realizing the market, we’ll certainly have electric bikes IMO.
Not for a while though.