Maker Faire 2008: Electric motorcycles

Posted May 7th 2008 10:15PM by Eliot Phillips
Filed under: transportation hacks

Builder [Justin Gray] brought a pair of electric motorcycles to Maker Faire last weekend. Pictured above is the R84, which has 28 LiFePo cells and an 84v AC induction drive providing 54HP. All of that is stuffed in a 2000 Yamaha R1 frame. You can buy it now for $14,000.

The second bike is dubbed the R144. It's a144v DC system with 48cell lithium power supply driving a 60kw series motor.

[Justin]'s other passion is building fire robots like Libby pictured below.

Reader Comments

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1. where were those, i seem to have missed them while i was there.

Posted at 10:30PM on May 7th 2008 by elliott

2. They were right to the right of the parking lot side entrance as you walked in.

Posted at 1:14AM on May 8th 2008 by Eliot

3. Did you get some pictures of ElectricMotorsport's Todd Killin and his Electric R1?

I didn't go, but saw a ton of pictures of electric cycles.

Very inspiring as I'm converting my VFR700 to electric.

Posted at 3:41PM on May 8th 2008 by frodus

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