Ducati: electric motorcycles? They will. "The Future Is Electricity"
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Ducati: electric motorcycles? They will. "The Future Is Electricity"

At the Motostudent event in Spain, the President of Ducati made a very strong statement: "The future is electricity and we are close to mass production." Could an electric Ducati hit the market in 2019?

Ducati has already made electric bicycles, and together with the Polytechnic University of Milan, they even created the Ducati Zero, a real electric motorcycle (photo above). In addition, the president of the company was once photographed on a Ducati Hypermotard motorcycle converted to electricity using a Zero FX drive.

Ducati: electric motorcycles? They will. "The Future Is Electricity"

As recalled by the Electrek portal (source), in 2017 a company spokesman talked about electric two-wheelers that will appear in the 2021 model year (that is, in the second half of 2020). However, now CEO Claudio Domenicali himself has made it clear that the company is close to launching mass production. And if the president himself says so, then the tests should be at a very advanced stage.

Time is running out because even Harley-Davidson has already announced an electric model, and Italy's Energica or American Zero have been making electric two-wheelers for years. Even the Urals are racing forward.

> Harley-Davidson: Electric LiveWire from $ 30, range of 177 km [CES 2019]

In addition, today the largest brakes for electric motorcycles are batteries, or rather the energy density stored in them. A half-ton can in a chassis is easy to swallow in a car, but not suitable for a motorcycle. Therefore, in addition to solid electrolyte lithium-ion cells, lithium-sulfur cells, which promise higher energy density for the same mass, or lower mass for the same capacity, are also being intensively researched.

> The European project LISA is about to start. The main goal: to create lithium-sulfur cells with a density of 0,6 kWh / kg.

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