The market size would be so small, no one could afford the investment to design and build one.

 

It better make "vroom-vroom" noises or I wouldn't be interested.

 

Trying to grok why anyone would do that.

 

I would be worried that I would get about 100 miles away, then some smartass back home would unplug the power cord.

 

I think you would find the range would be very poor. You are starting with a heavy bike setup up. Part of what makes a electric vehicle successful is they make a very light chassis and put the weight in batteries. There have been electric bikes but they are always a smaller/lighter chassis.

Which that also asks the question of why a touring setup? You aren't going to tour very far on battery. Even the new harley has a pretty limited range and it has a lot of technology to recover electricity during braking etc.

 

Do electrics leak oil?


carl

 

No, but they can release the magic smoke...............

 

It won’t sump.

 

Everything electric runs on smoke....if you let the smoke out....it no longer works...

 

I can appreciate that, however, you won't need a transmission and you already start with a chassis that you have to fabricate a pivot point for the swingarm. Baggers use the back of the trans for the pivot point. Perhaps start with a soft tail or something that has a swingarm attached to the frame. You could always make "saddle bags" to hide the batteries.