Lightning

Some days ago Lightning Motorcycle revealled the LS-218 electric Superbike at Quail Motorsport Gathering held in Carmel, California, excited to introduce the most technologically advanced and highest performing street-legal production motorcycle in the world.



"Since 2006 the Lightning team has been dedicated to developing electric motorcycles that meet and exceed the performance of the best ICE alternatives", said Richard Hatfield, CEO of Lightning Motorcycle. "To have broad acceptance from the motorcyclist community, we need to provide design, performance and value that competes head to head with the best gasoline motorcycles on the market.

Lightning's R&D team has developed electric vehicle technology through years of competition at racing events around the world. The team believe that the LS-218 offers consumers the best of design, performance and value in today's market."

The Lightning LS-218 has more horsepower, more torque, more speed and more performance than any other production motorcycle on the market. Lightning is taking reservation right now.

Lightning Motors Corp. has been involved in researching and manufacturing electric two wheeled transportations for more than six years. They build the fastest production motorcycle in the world, won many road racing competitions and set several world speed records. The technical solutions from this Company are used in various applications, from fuel cell hybrid electric buses, hybrid cars, electric motorcycle, electric ATV, electric yard trucks for ferrying shipping containers, professional ocean racing sailboat and many other areas.

Their mission has been to build 2 wheel electric transportation (E2W) that has superior efficiency, performance, and affordability than current gasoline alternatives. Lightning collaborates with numerous designers, engineers, battery manufacturers, R&D companies, and motor manufactures to bring to market world class solutions. In addition to the SuperBike, Lightning is producing prototypes of electric commuter bikes, scooters, and ATVs.

Each part of the SuperBike is purpose built to provide you the most performance on or off the track. The IPM liquid cooled 150kw+ 10,500 rpm electric motor generates an equivalent of 200 hp and 168 ft/lbs of torque. There is no transmisión, it’s a direct drive motor.

Lightning Motorcycle exclusively uses the most powerful and safest best of breed batteries currently available with a charging time of 30 mins on a quick charger or 120 minutes on level 2 charger. The customer can choose between a 380V 12kwh battery pack good for 100-120 miles per charge or a 380V 15kwh battery pack good for 120-150 miles per charge or a 380V 20kwh battery pack good for 160-180 miles per charge.

The front suspensión is a Öhlins FGRT inverted fork with NIX30 cartridge internals, TiN surface treatment, billet aluminum radial caliper mountings and a fully adjustable spring preload, compression and rebound damping.

The rear suspensión based on a billet aluminum swingarm with linear Öhlins TTX36 Shock and linkage system and an adjustment for preload, ride height, high and low speed compression and rebound. The brakes are dual Brembo 320mm disc; Brembo radial-mount forged 4-piston calipers, 2 Brembo T-Drive 320mm Fully-Floating Rotors and 2 Brembo GP4-RX CNC Radial Calipers.

The motocycle uses Marchesini forged magnesium 3.5″ x 17″ front Wheel with 120/70ZR17 tires and Marchesini forged magnesium 6.0″ x 17″ rear Wheel with 190/55ZR17 tires.

The new Lightning has a regenerative braking and a total weight of 495 lbs.