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The Diode e-Bike’s Design is Cyberpunk Minimalism at its Very Best

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Relying on the basic building blocks of both automobiles as well as technology, Tien Hung’s Diode e-bike concept sports a neo-minimalist design that celebrates the future of the electric power train. The bike’s form is practically invisible barring one singular horizontal pillar that travels from dashboard to taillight, and the large battery module located under it. Despite its bare-basics approach, the e-bike doesn’t compromise on essentials, with a powerful rear-wheel drivetrain, a comfortable seat, USB charging points located near the bike’s charger inlet, and a digital dashboard that does everything from serving as a speedometer to even having its built-in GPS.

Designer: TienHung.Design

The beauty of the Diode lies in its abstraction of the conventional motorcycle shape. Most motorcycles are sculpted like horses, evoking the feeling of sitting on a saddle with a wild animal in your reigns. The fuel tank has an almost sinewy shape, resembling the torso of a stallion or bronco. All that goes out the window with the Diode, which takes a form-following-function route to design something that’s sleek. The fact that EV technology allows for cars/bikes to be more liberal with their component placements helps this further.

The entire e-bike’s design highlights how technological advancements have allowed two-wheelers to be more expressive with their forms. The electric powertrain means components don’t need to be arranged in a certain way. The battery sits between the riders legs, assuming whatever shape you need it to be in, while the motor sits mounted against the rear wheel, opening up the Diode’s overall design to a great degree of minimalistic expression.

The area where a fuel tank would once be located is now an empty cavity in which you can store your phone, TWS earbuds, and wallet. Right above it is the Diode’s charging port, along with two USB-A outlets that let you juice your phone and other gadgets directly using the EV-s battery pack. The headlight and taillight are minimal yet expressive too, relying on LED strips that can be formed in any shape rather than the traditional parabolic reflector lamp seen on most cars and bikes.

Lastly, the Diode gets a neat white and black paint job with metallic accents, giving it that futuristic appeal popularized by most EVs today.

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Ultraviolette’s Stellar Tribute: Limited ‘Space Edition’ F77 Bike Celebrates Chandrayaan 3’s Triumph

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In honoring the Chandrayaan 3’s successful landing on the south pole of the moon, Indian electric mobility startup Ultraviolette unveiled the F77 Space Edition, a limited-edition variant of their popular electric sportsbike. The F77 Space Edition is a hat-tip to India’s undying innovative spirit, and to the country’s technological brilliance.

The F77 Space Edition comes as no surprise given Ultraviolette’s sheer obsession with everything aerospace. Their flagship electric sportsbike’s design cues (and even its name) echo the aggressive beauty of fighter jets, and the Space Edition of the F77 takes their love for supersonic flight beyond the stratosphere… quite literally! Ensconced in white and orange, the F77 Space Edition comes crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum with space-grade paint to match. The electric motorcycle also features an advanced interface that gives you aircraft-grade telemetry including Real-time Roll, Pitch, Yaw feedback, making you feel less like a biker and more like a pilot!

Designer: Ultraviolette

Limited to just 10 units, the F77 Special Edition re-defines custom electric motorcycle innovation at its finest with a whopping 40.5 hp peak power, 100 Nm torque, and a game-changing IDC (Indian Driving Conditions) range of 307 kilometers or approximately 190 miles. The electric motorcycle can hit speeds of 0-60km/h in 2.9 seconds, and reach a top speed of 157 km/h (97.7mph), making it an e-sportsbike that quite literally shoots for the stars.

The F77’s spectacular frame makes it one of the most eye-catching electric motorcycles out there, setting a standard not just in the Indian market, but globally too. Its aggressive stance and trailing rear make it look like a jet in mid-air, and its construction embodies the ethos of the aviation industry – If a particular component or feature is not serving a core functional need, it simply does not exist. To that end, every single part of the F77 comes tested to 99.9% reliability and predictability, ensuring each sportsbike is built with the same no-compromises mentality as a fighter jet.

The Space Edition takes things up a notch, with a refined aesthetic that’s a perfect homage to India’s extraterrestrial ambitions. The Special Edition F77 features a custom-machined 7075 aluminum alloy fairing and components. Aluminum 7075 has a remarkable strength-to-weight ratio, and is lighter than most steels yet has a similar tensile strength. Due to its exceptional properties, it is often employed in parts like aircraft structures, defense systems, and various applications, especially in aerospace and military industries.

The F77 Space Edition also gets an overhauled dashboard, featuring aircraft-grade telemetry data. The avionics in the electric motorcycle include multiple fail-proof systems for the battery and just like in an aircraft, the system can measure Roll, Pitch, and Yaw through a 9-axis IMU. The experience transcends anything an electric motorcycle can offer.

The F77 Space Edition also comes with a novel aerospace-grade paint-job, using the same chemical paints employed by aircrafts. Designed to withstand the toughest conditions, this paint provides outstanding corrosion protection, UV and fade resistance, chemical resistance, and thermal stability. Its smooth finish ensures that the motorcycle retains its sleek appearance even in the most challenging situations and for an extended period of time. Furthermore, the paint aids in improving overall performance by reducing drag, thereby boosting efficiency.

Unveiled this week amidst the celebration of ISRO’s triumphant moon-landing mission, the F77 Space Edition will be limited to just 10 units and will start at a price of ₹560,000 rupees ($6780 USD). Bookings for the F77 Space Edition will open on August 22 at 6 PM IST on the company’s official website.

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This sleek folding e-bike lets you ride up to 200km on a single charge

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Ever since the pandemic (or maybe even before that), people are more conscious now about the way they travel and commute and are looking for more sustainable ways to move around. We’re seeing more people going to school or work with bicycles, electric bikes, e-scooters, and other electric vehicles. Sometimes though, if you’re going a bit far, you’ll have to stop and recharge some of these electric vehicles. So the ideal situation would be to have something that’s earth-friendly, that has good battery life, and is portable.

Designer: Petre Georgescu

Previously, Petre Georgescu was able to develop the lightest foldable bicycle available right now. This time around, he came up with an electric bike that can reach the farthest on a single charge. The Colibri M22 is a foldable electric moped that can get you as far as 200km without having to recharge. Once you’ve finished your commute, you can fold it and store it somewhere like under stairways or in a storage area because it has compact mechanisms that allows it to be folded in a smaller manner.

The Colibri M22 weighs in at just 30 kilograms if you remove the batteries. But of course you need to put it in to be able to travel up to 200km on a full charge. You’ll be able to ride at a maximum speed of 50 km/hour. If you put it on its off-road mode, you can ride it at 90 kph when you’re traveling through forests and mountains. The electric moped can be driven legally on roads with a category B license. The three modular batteries can be charged individually as well.

In terms of design, it looks pretty much a regular, small motorbike, except you have these three huge batteries in a container in front of you. But of course that’s a small price to pay to have an e-vehicle that can get you farther than the regular e-bikes that are currently in the market. It’s now available for pre-sale in the US and Europe through crowdfunding on their website with prices starting at $2,799.

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This Tesla Cyberbike concept was designed entirely by Artificial Intelligence

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Tesla Cyberbike

While the Cybertruck is still a conceptual vehicle, we thought we’d up the stakes and imagine what a Tesla Cyberbike would look like!

Looking sort of like the Tesla Cyberquad’s meaner older sibling, the Cyberbike comes with the same edgy, angular metal fairing that houses Tesla’s game-changing electric powertrain underneath. However, this isn’t an official Tesla concept, heck it isn’t even a fan-made one. These conceptual images (there are a bunch of them below) were designed primarily using Midjourney’s Text-to-Image AI. I simply described the Tesla Cyberbike to the AI bot and was greeted by some rather phenomenal-looking images of an edgy, low-poly e-bike with a broad, aggressive body made primarily of sheet metal. The AI experimented with other aspects of the e-bike too – no two headlights look the same, and some of the tires seem rather angular as well, but the results make two things abundantly clear… that A. Artificial Intelligence is an incredibly powerful creative tool, and B. Someone should really build these out because they look absolutely BONKERS.

Designer: Midjourney (Prompts by Sarang Sheth)

Tesla Cyberbike

These images are courtesy Midjourney’s latest V4 upgrade, which now allows users to use images in their text prompts. I simply selected a few minimalist bike designs and told the AI to expand on it by creating an ‘electric motorcycle inspired by the Tesla Cybertruck’. For the most part, the AI did a pretty remarkable job of understanding how angular the Cybertruck’s design is and superimposing that on the ‘Cyberbike’, but the one thing the AI currently lacks is consistency. Each image is of a ‘new’ bike that doesn’t look quite like the other concept. If anything, this article is more of a moodboard for what a Tesla Cyberbike should look like. If Franz von Holzhausen (Tesla’s lead designer) is reading this, here you go! You’re welcome!

Tesla Cyberbike

The bike concepts have a few things in common, they’re all rather broad, with an imposing silhouette that makes them feel more like a superbike than your average e-bike. Those thicc-AF tires reinforce that idea too, although some concepts make the tires just as edgy and sharp as the Cyberbike’s fairing itself. Giving the AI a cyberpunk theme resulted in a few interesting variants with some beautiful headlights (all LED strips) and some concepts like the one below even put lights in the tires, making the e-bike look like something out of Tron.

Tesla Cyberbike

Tesla Cyberbike

The AI obviously doesn’t grasp technicalities, which is why a lot of the concepts may not seem entirely feasible but are more of a general visual direction. Some concepts forget to render footrests, some of them play rather loosely with internal components – almost none of the concepts have an exhaust pipe, but there are a few that look like they’ve got a fuel-powered engine. I like that they’ve all skipped the rear view mirrors too, almost like an internal joke about how the Cybertruck didn’t have rear view mirrors during its debut! There are no cracked glass panels on these concepts, thankfully.

Tesla Cyberbike

Tesla Cyberbike

This Tesla Cyberbike exploration eventually turned into a headlamp exploration, with the AI going all in on new headlight styles. They’re all undoubtedly sporty, and LED-strip lighting seems to be a recurring theme, but unlike the Cybertruck that just has a single strip running from left to right, these concepts experiment with new shapes and a split-headlight design that gives the motorbike MUCH more character.

Tesla Cyberbike

The glowing shock absorbers are a nice touch, no?! The image below even goes as far as adding strips to the base and rear for a rather interesting overall aesthetic.

Tesla Cyberbike

Even with close-ups, the AI did a phenomenal job of rendering out the details of the Cyberbike’s headlight, the glass cover, and even cutouts for air intakes around it, and doing so while keeping things bilaterally symmetrical. Peep in further and you can see what looks like additional lights with reflectors and textured glass, but then again, these images are to be taken strictly at face value.

Tesla Cyberbike

My final experiments were to also design a dashboard for the motorcycle, and it seems like the AI preferred something more traditional and circular, although a massive touchscreen display seems to be more of a standard in Tesla cars. This dashboard is entirely digital too, although the numbers and letters are gibberish because the AI isn’t capable of generating meaningful text yet (it’s something Nvidia seems to have cracked with their latest AI tool eDiff-I, although that isn’t open for public use yet).

Earlier this year we also covered what an AI-designed Apple Car would look like, created by another AI art bot by the name of DALL·E 2. AI art is definitely making waves this year, and while a lot of talented artists (rightfully so) are afraid this may be the end of human-made art, the tool should also be viewed for what it is, and incredible ideation software that designers and artists can use to create rapid concepts that take mere minutes instead of hours or days.

Tesla Cyberbike

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SOLID CRS-01 is a brutalist alternative to the future of motorcycles

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It’s only natural for humans to dream of a better and brighter future, no matter what current realities would seem to imply. That’s why concept designs naturally portray ideal scenarios in design languages that appeal to current design trends, as if those would remain the same in the future. For future vehicles, that often translates to designs with smooth and pleasing curves, clean and clear surfaces, and often light or bright hues. Design trends and styles come and go, of course, and what may be en vogue today might not be fashionable in a decade or so. Clean, minimalist vehicles might not be the future we’ll be facing, and this limited edition motorcycle offers an alternative version, one that may seem rough and perhaps a little bit dystopian.

Designer: Voyager

While vehicles are logically designed with movement in mind, but there are also other factors that need to be taken into account for a machine that can be used by humans. Safety is at the very top of that list, of course, but a vehicle must also be comfortable. The design of today’s cars and motorbikes has undergone decades of refinement and improvement exactly for those reasons, but this commissioned SOLID EV motorcycle seems to throw comfort out the window, at least visually speaking.

The SOLID CRS-01 looks rough, sharp, and almost menacing, properties that are often attributed to the brutalist design style. It’s almost as if sheets of metal were simply folded at sharp angles and assembled together with wheels, engines, and other parts that make a motorcycle move. And, in a way, that’s exactly how this motorcycle was designed. It was conceptualized with a modular approach using cost-effective materials, and the fairing is exactly made from sheet metal.

This gives the motorbike a distinct look where it seems like the world had run out of materials to use or factories to cast metal into a more pleasing shape. Not that the CRS-01 is unattractive, but it does have a more dominating presence compared to motorcycles, both present and future. It definitely doesn’t look comfortable to ride on since its body doesn’t seem designed to take into account the softer and curvier form of the human body. It certainly has character, one that makes it clear it means serious business.

At the same time, it doesn’t look like it will easily come apart or get dinged at the slightest accident, like what some futuristic concept designs portray. It seems more like it was designed for rough terrains and environments, which some would automatically associate with dystopian settings or even the cyberpunk genre. Who knows? That might be what’s waiting for us, though we’d hopefully wise up before that bleak future becomes our present.

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This futuristic cyberpunk motorbike uses a hydrogen fuel cell that provides 100% clean energy

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Meet Hydra, an e-bike with a difference. Unlike traditional electric motorcycles that rely on a powertrain that pulls energy from a lithium-ion battery, Hydra offers an alternate, much more experimental solution – hydrogen fuel cells. Although still in its infancy, hydrogen fuel cells promise absolutely clean energy. Unlike gasoline-powered engines, the fuel cells have zero harmful emissions, and unlike traditional lithium-ion battery EVs, hydrogen fuel cells do away with toxic battery acids that can potentially wreak havoc on the environment if not disposed of properly. In fact, when fueled with pure hydrogen, the only by-products are heat and water (hence the name Hydra), making the technology a zero-emission, sustainable power source.

Designers: Anton Guzhov, Anton Brousseau & André Taylforth

Although the technology itself is rather fascinating, what’s more appealing here is the designers’ treatment of the motorcycle, giving it an entirely distinct new form factor to hat-tip the fact that this isn’t your average gas-powered vehicle. The Hydra is undeniably cyberpunk, with the clever use of straight lines to define forms and curves only to round off edges. The bike isn’t lithe or aerodynamic, but rather has an almost robotic appeal with its affinity for straight lines and simple geometric shapes. Hydra’s front is dominated by a large block which serves as the hydrogen fuel cell. The engine sits right below the cantilever seat, powering the rear wheel directly.

The Hydra sports a beautiful translucent fairing, which reveals the complexities inside and provides the perfect contrast against the other carbon fiber components used around the e-bike.

A look at the Hydra under its fairing gives a better idea of its underlying tech. Even for a motorcycle that’s entirely conceptual at the moment, the level of detail and planning gone into executing this design is just staggering.

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Sleek DAB Concept-E bike redefines urban mobility with Supermoto styling + lightweight aesthetics

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An all-electric lightweight motorcycle crafted for the near future, perfectly tailored for the city rides, commute to work and everything in between. The focus here is on the pleasure of driving and a style statement that goes very well with the younger lot!

It goes without saying, electric mobility is the future and established brands, as well as budding automotive startups, are chasing the dream of creating commercially viable electric vehicles that are not short on power delivery. In the electric race is the DAB Concept-E electric motorcycle that creates a niche for itself owing to the off-beat design. This e-bike is created with assistance from Outercraft design studio headed by Pierrick Pichaureaux, who’ve managed to strike the right balance between design parity to display what’s important. The oblique lines create a flying back form while the horizontal lines bring in a sense of simplicity.

This is DAB Motors’ first electric bike to arrive on the electrified horizon, and instantly it impresses with the sleek silhouette balanced out with the Supermoto styling. The bodywork is done mostly in carbon fiber keeping the bike lightweight while the saddle is crafted with durable Ripstop material that’s usually used for making yacht sails. To keep all the wiring away from the naked eye, Outercraft has strategically designed the bike’s frame and swingarm in a way to house all the wires. Keeping up with the modern aesthetics, there’s an LED speedometer console on the front and a slim array of translucent LED headlights underneath a flat-track-inspired board.

Coming on to the more technical specifications, DAB Concept-E gets a 10 kW electric motor and a 51.8 V lithium-ion battery pack. The makers claim, the e-bike to reach a top speed of 105 kmph and a range of 110 km. Since the ride is tailored for urban spaces in the future, it gets the Gates belt drive having aluminum machined pulleys. We have to keep in mind, the motorcycle is still in the concept stage and how much of the design or mechanical components will make it through to the production model, still remains to be seen.

Designer: DAB Motors, Outercraft and Pierrick Pichaureaux

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This hyperbike concept challenges the one unsaid rule of high-end race bike design…

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Imagine driving a Lamborghini to work or on a grocery run. Well, if you can afford a Lamborghini, you probably have someone doing your grocery shopping for you, but the point I’m really getting at is that the Lamborghini is like caviar… good for special occasions, not for regular consumption. The same logic applies to hyperbikes, which fall within the luxury Veblen good category, but designer Rostyslav Matiukhin asked himself… what if the hyperbike’s essence was modified or dialed down, so it could be easily used as an everyday bike?

At its core, the ROS.M electric hyperbike concept breaks the one unsaid rule of luxury automotive design – even though it falls well within the hyperbike category, it’s still meant to be a daily driver. Taking on an approach that mirrors products like the iPhone that’s ‘designed to be high-end, but is built for being good at everyday tasks’, the ROS.M hopes to be, and these aren’t words you’ll hear too often in the automotive industry – a luxury hyperbike that regular consumers will love to drive too… and that required Rostyslav to first start by asking some pretty important questions.

“We have a lot of hyperbikes that are too fast and heavy for everyday use, on the one hand, and many tinybikes that cannot meet all needs,” says Rostyslav. “Which characteristics are attributable to modern urban transport?” Should it be environmentally friendly? Economical? Lightweight, maneuverable, safe, powerful, modern, and still stylish? How do these attributes affect the ‘image’ of a hyperbike?

The ROS.M electric motorcycle was designed with all that requirements in mind. Guided by the principle of balance, the designer was able to achieve the best balance between characteristics and parameters that provide a superior user experience, and still allow the bike to sit within its high-end hyperbike territory.

For starters, the bike prioritizes a balance between a racing aesthetic and actual day-to-day use. Its silhouette definitely compares to hyperbikes and superbikes, with their sinewy, crouching-tiger aesthetic that’s synonymous with power, agility, and a predator spirit… but the ROS.M still considers aspects like overall rider comfort, adjustability, storage, safety, etc.

Rostyslav was quick to point out how the ROS.M’s design breaks ‘racing bike’ stereotypes by actually being ‘useful’. Prioritizing safety, the hyperbike actually repositions the headlight, placing it on the wheel instead of in front of the driver. This stabilizes the headlight’s beam in relation to the road, which means the wheels, which are always making contact with the ground, inform where the light shines… unlike the default position right in front of the rider, which is susceptible to movement because of the bike’s suspension. This means acceleration and braking, which would normally cause the headlight’s beam to move up or down, now doesn’t affect the headlight.

The e-bike comes with a charging port located where you’d traditionally have the inlet for a motorcycle’s fuel tank, although right behind it lies a pretty important feature that you’ll almost never on even traditional motorcycles, leave alone hyperbikes – storage. The ROS.M has 15 liters worth of storage space right underneath the seat, big enough for stashing a backpack for daily driving to work and back, or even an additional reserve battery, for long road trips.

Other features of the ROS.M include design details like protective elements along the extreme sides of the bike (like guards near the handlebars and behind the seat) that protect the bike and rider from damage during a sideways fall. The bike also comes with a pretty modern dashboard that provides much more actionable information and even doubles up as a GPS to help with navigation. The dashboard and windscreen are both independently height-adjustable, giving the rider a fair amount of flexibility and comfort during use. The ROS.M also comes with a rear-wheel electric drivetrain, which cuts down on constant servicing, taking the hassle out of maintaining and replacing parts like the spark plug, air filter, coolant fluid, etc. Boiling the bike’s serviceable parts down to simply a motor, brake pads, and brake fluid, the ROS.M requires much less upkeep than fuel-guzzling hyperbikes.

All in all, whether you’re driving the ROS.M in a crouched racing position, or sitting upright as you would on a regular bike while driving through the streets, the ROS.M’s approach to bike design ensures a balance between the practicality of everyday use, and the sheer madness of racing down an empty road and leaving a trail of dust behind. It sounds like a rather novel approach, as it hopes to fulfill the best of both worlds, offering a bike that’s a speed demon when you want it, and a rather stunning-looking commute bike when you need it.

Designer: Rostyslav Matiukhin

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World’s fastest electric motorcycle has a MASSIVE hole running right through its center… for better aerodynamics

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Currently preparing to take on the world land speed record for electric motorcycles (which is targeted at 250mph or 402 km/h), the WMC250EV sports a rather unique design characterized by a hole running right through its center. Its maker, Britain-based White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC), claims this helps bring about an impressive 69% reduction in drag.

Founder and CEO of White Motorcycle Concepts, Rob White, is a seasoned veteran in the racing world, having worked on numerous Formula One, Le Mans Prototype, V8 supercar and World Endurance Championship race teams over the past 25 years. The WMC250EV is his magnum opus, as it aims to set the new land speed record by going faster than 250mph, which White says it should be pretty capable of doing. The bike looks rather normal from the side, but the minute you walk to the front or the back you’ll notice a gaping hole running right through the center. It’s rather unusual to look at, and presents its own set of design/engineering constraints, although the pros HEAVILY outweigh the cons. Here’s what I mean.

Drag is perhaps one of the biggest physical barriers when it comes to speed and aerodynamics. It’s why bullet trains are made to be so pointy, why your bicycle/motorbike picks up speed when you lean forward into that popular ‘racer’ position, and also why WMC decided to put a hole through its bike, almost as if someone took an apple corer to the bike’s design. WMC’s dubbed it ‘V-Duct Technology’ and has even had it patented internationally.

To give you an idea of exactly how aerodynamic the WMC250EV is, it has a drag coefficient of 0.118. As New Atlas reports, “Even the mighty SSC Tuatara, currently the world’s fastest production car at 282.9 mph (455.3 km/h), can only manage a drag coefficient of 0.279.” This allows the WMC250EV to easily hit those breakneck speeds required to set the world record, but that aerodynamic design does present its own set of challenges.

That hole (or technically an air-duct) running through the center of the bike meant rearranging some of the key components to create a hollow channel. The WMC250EV’s electric drivetrain and battery pack are sort of wedged between the two wheels, freeing up space beneath the rider. The steering suspension and forks needed reworking to, and to accommodate for that hollow channel, the WMC250EV uses a double-swingarm suspension system, visible clearly in the bike’s stripped-down image below.

The WMC250EV comes with a rather reasonable 15kWh battery pack delivering power to the double 20 kW electric motors on the front wheel as well as the double 30 kW electric motors on the rear wheel, bringing the bike’s total peak power to 100 kW (134 horsepower). While that might not seem like it’s enough to create a bike capable of breaking speed records, that’s where that aerodynamic design makes all the difference. There’s only so much a powerful engine can output, right?

The WMC250EV’s unique design is a proof-of-concept for how the V-Duct can help significantly boost a vehicle’s performance and energy efficiency. “We’ve produced the most aerodynamically efficient motorcycle in the world,” says White. “It is electric, as that is the pre-eminent zero-emissions power source at the moment, but as the aerodynamic concept provides efficiency benefit, it could just as easily be hydrogen or any other future power source.”

The bike will be taking a shot at breaking the British land speed record later this year, and will then head down to the Bolivian salt flats in 2022 to take a shot at the World land speed record.

Designer: White Motorcycle Concepts

This ambitious electric motorcycle concept has filtered intakes that can purify the air as you drive

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Think about it. What if, instead of emitting carbon monoxide, your motorcycle could do the absolute opposite? What if, instead of relying on a fuel-powered engine, your motorcycle could be powered by cleaner energy while also cleaning the air around you as you drive down the roads? It’s an ambitious idea that Lin Yu Cheng is working on through his concept motorcycle Aether.

Aether is a rather edgy-looking Cybertruck-ish conceptual motorcycle that runs on an electric drivetrain… but that isn’t its highlight feature. The e-motorcycle sports two large air intakes on the front (right before each leg) that naturally pull air in as you drive. The air that enters these intakes is passed through the Aether’s ceramic filter modules that help trap PM 2.5 microparticles, allowing filtered, cleaner air to pass through the exhausts on the opposite end. The result is an e-motorbike that does more than reducing its carbon-impact, it actually purifies the air around it, resulting in cleaner and lesser polluted air. The ceramic purifier module needs periodic maintenance/replacement too, which is why Lin Yu Cheng’s developed a system where you can either get them replaced ever so often, or pop them out and wash the dirt off them, making them as good as new!

The idea of purifying air as you drive isn’t entirely new, though. Designer Daan Roosegaarde demonstrated the Smog Free Project in partnership with the Chinese Central Government, that involved mounting air purifiers on the front of bicycles that were capable of purifying air as you cycled around the neighborhood. Lin Yu Cheng’s concept builds on that, with a stunning design that combines automotive artistry with an environmentally forward vision. While the Aether is a conceptual e-motorbike, its technology could easily be implemented on current motorcycles and e-bikes, allowing you as the rider to feel the wind in your hair while also cleaning the air around you!

Designer: Lin Yu Cheng