Triumph presents electric motorbike prototype......EXRO ??..... this is what we need more of......Feb 9, 2022 from Electrive News article....google for full article................. ************The British brand Triumph Motorcycles has presented the prototype of an electric motorbike, the TE-1. The machine was developed in a joint project with Williams Advanced Engineering and the University of Warwick. Now the TE-1 is to be tested for six months.
The fast-charging electric motorbike has a special battery pack developed by Williams with a capacity of 15 kWh and comes to 80 kW continuous power or 130 kW peak power. Williams has also developed what it claims is completely new battery management software, an integrated vehicle control unit and a compact DC-DC converter tailored to the limited installation space in the electric motorcycle.
With the components specially adapted to the motorbike, a number of advantages are said to result for the rider of the machine. For example, more power is available for a longer period of time, and it should also be possible to call up the power independently of the State of Charge – the power should not be cut off when the charge level is low.
This is made possible by the performance of the battery: the 80 kW continuous and 130 kW peak power mentioned are the specifications of the electric drive system.
According to Williams, however, the battery is designed for a peak power of 170 kW and a continuous power of 90 kW.
In combination with the “class-leading system cooling”, the power should be optimally available. Conversely, the 360-volt battery is supposed to be able to be charged from zero to 80 per cent in 20 minutes.