Moto-e is conceived as a single-make class that focuses on trying to generate close and entertaining racing, rather than pushing electric motorcycle development by pitting different manufacturers against one another like the TT Zero.
Yesterday, Dorna announced that Italian brand Energica has been chosen to supply the bikes.
But the Lightning is proving slow to manufacture and expensive to sell, coming in around US$38,000, and the company has not yet managed to set up an international dealership network. Energica has done substantially better getting a product out there, with a growing list of dealerships across Europe, Scandinavia, Israel and both coasts of the United States.
The Ego in road trim weighs in around 258 kg (570 lbs), so it's a bit of a barge compared to the featherweight MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 class bikes. But there's definitely weight to be saved, and one area Dorna is prepared to look at is the stock bike's battery, which at 11.7 kWh may end up being more than the race bikes need.
As a modified production class based on a fairly heavy streetbike, it's fair to guess that Moto-e won't threaten the lap times of any of the GP classes. And as a single-make class, there'll be little in terms of development to make things exciting in a technological sense.
But perhaps an evenly matched field and some hopefully tight racing can help overcome the eerie quiet of an electric motorcycle race and spark (yuk yuk) some fan interest. There's no question in my mind that electric cars and motorcycles will soon be dominating their combustion counterparts on the racetrack, so we'd best learn to enjoy them, noisy or not.
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