Photo: Nicolas Petit
Here's a truly glorious bike concept from Nicolas Petit, even if we'd rather call it a dream which will never come true: Trunk, the electric Harley-Davidson.
The "bike that never was" brings forth a very nifty design with a different approach to traditional bike building, and this gives it quite a distinctive allure. Petit says this concept should incorporate both natural and recycled materials, for a truly green twist.
Trunk could come with an 135V 35 kW (48 HP) brushless motor and 65 Nm (lb-ft) of torque, fed by a 6.5 kWh Li-Ion-Polymer battery with 4500 cycles and a 4-hour recharging time. Petit added dual 320mm wave rotors in the front, squeezed by 4-piston calipers and a single 2piston caliper for the 310mm rear brake disc.
Nicolas Petit's electric Harley-Davidson could do up to 130 km/h ( above 80 mph) and could deliver up to 5 hours of urban riding. Add in the state-of-the-art epicyclical transmission integrated in the rear hub for an even more future-focused H-D build.
Is the electric H-D Trunk cool? By all means, yes! Will we ever see such a machine quietly rolling by in the neighborhood? Most likely not. Anyway, we're glad to see that visionaries such as Petit are crossing the "holiest of borders"...
Trunk could come with an 135V 35 kW (48 HP) brushless motor and 65 Nm (lb-ft) of torque, fed by a 6.5 kWh Li-Ion-Polymer battery with 4500 cycles and a 4-hour recharging time. Petit added dual 320mm wave rotors in the front, squeezed by 4-piston calipers and a single 2piston caliper for the 310mm rear brake disc.
Nicolas Petit's electric Harley-Davidson could do up to 130 km/h ( above 80 mph) and could deliver up to 5 hours of urban riding. Add in the state-of-the-art epicyclical transmission integrated in the rear hub for an even more future-focused H-D build.
Is the electric H-D Trunk cool? By all means, yes! Will we ever see such a machine quietly rolling by in the neighborhood? Most likely not. Anyway, we're glad to see that visionaries such as Petit are crossing the "holiest of borders"...
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