Mission One Motors has a good idea, its goes to "150 mph" and has power, but there is a down fall.
"The deposit amount is $5000, and the sales price is $68,995."
Wayyy too expensive, and this "but all the money I save in not buying gas" crap. Lets break this down.
I payed 10k for my 09 10r, that leaves me 58k to work with (lets just forget about the $995).
Gas at about $3 per gallon, 19,333 gallons, now lets do miles, say about 25 mpg (I throttle it a lot).
Thats 483,325 miles, wow! I would have to ride that thing a lot, way more than I want.
Lets keep going, I do ride a lot though, lets say, 15k a year, tahts 32 years of riding like that. By that time the bike should be long gone and dead.
I would calculate the extra cost of the electric bill but I am not really sure how to do that as of yet, but I pay $0.086 per KWH, so add on extra costs to this thing, I know its going to draw more than one KW to charge and take multiple hours, so IF I rode my zx10 for over 32 years, I could justify the initial cost, not to mention as earlier the KWH would raise up, I am expecting, when electric takes off, to pay around $2 per KWH, which just made everything more expensive, cant use light bulbs now, candle power, until they figure out a way to charge me for the CO2 footprint of a candle.