Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

There are other companies targeting other areas of the market.<p>Ultra high end: Harley Davidson Livewire, Zero SR&#x2F;F<p>High end: Fuell, Cake<p>Mid range: Zero S&#x2F;DS&#x2F;FX<p>Low end: Sur-on Light Bee, CSC City Slicker<p>The biggest problem for electric bikes is recharge time. Motorcycle batteries are physically small and have low range, and take hours to recharge compared to 1-2 minutes to refuel at a gas station. That makes them unusable for anything except city commuting or tossing in the back of a truck on the way to the OHV area. Meanwhile the fastest growing segment in motorcycling is adventure riding, which is for bikes that can be ridden thousands of miles at a time both on and off road (sometimes 50-100 miles away from paved roads or services of any kind).

Is there a reason for most motorcycles not to be electric by now?<p>Few people take them on the road, they seem to be used mostly in cities, so there&#x27;s not a big problem with range.<p>They are small, so you would have less of a problem setting up the charging infrastructure in your house.

The specifications and renders certainly look interesting, but there’s nothing on that site that indicates there is anything more than specs and renders.

I mean, electric mopeds have been a thing for decades now, when I was growing up certainly most kids had electric mopeds as petrol ones were more expensive and required more maintenance. Somehow these companies make it look as if electric bikes are something new that hasn&#x27;t been done before - that&#x27;s nonsense.

One thing I notice with electric motorcycle is that riding experience is much better than gasoline version ( way less vibration and better throttle control ). In Taiwan there&#x27;s a local company call Gogoro selling electric scooter (Scooter&#x2F;motorcycle is a very common here). Another interesting feature is that it doesn&#x27;t rely on charging station rather you swap the empty battery for charged ones from any battery exchange stations ( of course you had to pay for it).

Here is a video of the motorbike running in the Himalayas <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uNKIqbdIS9o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uNKIqbdIS9o</a>

Sarolea: Belgian electric superbike right here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sarolea.com&#x2F;motorcycles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sarolea.com&#x2F;motorcycles</a>

How much of this is actually made in Nepal? India&#x27;s been churning out vast quantities of increasingly decent domestic&#x2F;joint venture bikes for decades now and is starting to get serious about car manufacturing, but I wasn&#x27;t aware that Nepal was building much in the way of anything -- there can&#x27;t possibly be much of a local supply chain.

I loved the design, pausing and accepting the 2h charge to run 100km.<p>The iPad instrumentation however I don&#x27;t approve of and can&#x27;t accept. I at least hope it all goes orange-red on black at night.

It&#x27;s great. It seems like something that could make me buy one.

Sorry the website is a complete disaster for me on Firefox OS X.<p>In any case, it looks targeted at the higher end.<p>I would think electric bikes&#x2F;mopeds can be cheaper and more reliable than gasoline, and there would be a very big market, especially in poorer countries, competing with Honda Cubs etc as general workhorses.

The title is a bit click-baity. It almost reads like it&#x27;s the first electric bike, which it&#x27;s not. Also interesting choice in name. Project Zero is pretty similar to the Zero bike. Zero bike has been around for quite awhile now. I am glad to see some competition in this space.

May I take this opportunity to highlight to our American friends that its not pronounced as Nay-Paul. No. Its pronounced as Nay-Paal.

People in Nepal and developing countries need cheap&#x2F;er gasoline powered motorcycles&#x2F;scooters.<p>I&#x27;d start with people with first world problems to develop the tech.<p>Anyway, video, what they have done seems pretty insane given the timeline, not sure how much is off the shelf<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DBNV2gbrswg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DBNV2gbrswg</a>