Zero Motorcycles launch new FXE
Zero Motorcycles, the self-proclaimed world-leader in electric motorcycles and powertrains have just revealed this, the new Zero FXE. The Californian bike brand are better known for the SR/F, SR/S and DSR models. All fully electric, and all actually quite good. This new one is their latest, A2 license friendly city bike, and here?s everything you need to know about it.
HUGE Design, the award-winning San Francisco firm are to be credited with (or blamed for, depending on how you look at it) the futuristic styling on the FXE. If you can call it futuristic styling? I?m not sure you can, with its big round headlights and its clumpy looking swing-arm, but what do I know. If you like it, you like it, so let?s not dwell on its ?breath-taking aesthetics? (their words not mine).
Child’s Play
Let?s talk about what it?s capable of, instead. Well its passively air-cooled, high efficiency, IPM (interior permanent magnet), brushless Z-Force 75-5® motor, produces 46bhp and 106Nm of torque. That?ll be why you can ride one on an A2 license then.
46bhp isn?t going to put hairs on anyone?s chest. That said, you might be surprised how quickly it goes, and how well it handles. Because it?s only 135kg. To put that into perspective, that?s about the same weight as a GSX-R125; a bike with less than 15bhp.
Gone are the days of electric motorcycles being monstrously heavy compared to their gas-guzzling counterparts.
Instead of a fuel tank, you?ve got a 7.2kWh lithium...
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