BMW E-Power Roadster: powerful, fast charging and with good autonomy

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A few weeks ago we offered you the sketches that BMW used to approve the patent of an electric motorcycle, which looked like a production motorcycle.

The new BMW E-Power Roadster Concept is, for the moment, that: a concept or prototype, made of parts of different vehicles of the Munich brand.

The front (fork, brakes and cupolino) belong to an S1000R, while the rear, swingarm and gimbal, are of a R1250R. The chassis is new, a multitubular in steel of the Trellis type.

The batteries, enclosed in a metal box, are from a BMW 2 series hybrid car, and the engine, liquid cooled by two radiators, comes from the 7 series.

The batteries, enclosed in a metal box, are from a BMW 2 series hybrid car, and the engine, liquid cooled by two radiators, comes from the 7 series.

Without having declared the power, this engine offers a huge torque of 67 kgm, so that the BMW E-Power Roadster Concept is able to go from 0 to 100 km / h in 2.9 s and leave behind the S1000R ( of 165 hp), accelerating from standstill, in a comparison they made in BMW.

The current weight is 290 kg, but at BMW they believe it will be relatively easy to lower it to a reasonable 260 kg (more or less what an Energetic Moto-E World Championship weighs).

Autonomy is very important.

Another of the virtues of the BMW electric motorcycle is that it is capable of charging quickly, in less than an hour. The idea of the Munich brand is that in 30 minutes it will be able to already have an autonomy of about 180 km, and that at maximum capacity it will be between 200 and 300 km.