Ukraine's WOLFSTORM electric motorcycle is now official military equipment, offering silent transport for two soldiers with an 80 km/h speed and 100 km range.

It is depressing as hell being stuck in a fossil fuel obsessed world when we have had other viable options for decades, but take heart when you see electric dirt bikes beginning to proliferate in war, if Electric Vehicles are winning on the cutting edge of the frontline for reasons that have nothing to do with environmentalism, the future is far closer than it seems…

Also god damn I really hate loud dirtbikes and ATVs in nature so looking forward to these undercutting fossil fuel powered dirtbikes everywhere…

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 hours ago

    Unfortunately, a lot of idiots enjoy being obnoxious with the noise and exhaust fumes of ICE bikes. To me that is one of the main reasons electric motorcycles aren’t more popular.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
      11·
      4 hours ago

      I am starting to see more and more heavy electric bicycles and e-dirt bike type vehicles but yeah this is a big thing.

      People’s fixation on loud ICE engines is so intense that the tactical advantage of small electric vehicles has been largely ignored by militaries until recently and here we are talking of matters of life and death rather than aesthetic preference…

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      3 hours ago

      I’ve looked at electric bikes, every one of them has slow charging and shit range. They’re not built for riding any sort of distance.

      Companies aren’t selling what I want. That’s why I’m not buying them.

      I much prefer my electric car over a gas car, and I’d buy an electric bike if it had the same ability to tour as my current bike.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Motorcycles, even more than cars, depend on a very energy dense power source. Putting enough batteries in a motorcycle to give it decent range, and still letting it feel responsive is going to be a real challenge. Maybe in something like a Honda GoldWing where you’re hauling around a huge amount of other weight, you could add extra batteries and not change the responsiveness too much. But, the kinds of people who ride GoldWings are not doing little commuter trips, so you’d need extreme range to satisfy them, which I don’t think is feasible with current battery tech.

        If there were a way to swap out batteries at the charging station, that would change everything.