Brammo Owners Forum
General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Richard230 on December 24, 2013, 06:41:23 PM
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City Bike magazine finally got to visit the Lit Motors HQ where they interviewed Lit's Chief Marketing Manager, Ryan James. They saw and photographed their $100K C1 "prop", which was made by the same Hollywood company that makes props for movies like Tron and Oblivion and is designed to "create a showroom experience". Lit claims that the C1 will weigh 800 pounds, have a top speed of 100 mph and will travel 200 miles on a charge from its 8 kWh battery pack. The price of the C1 will be $24,000 and deliveries are expected to commence in late 2014.
Lit expects to manufacture and sell 1000 C1's a year. They say that they don't plan to make any money on the vehicle during the initial years of production. They have leased a building for their proposed factory somewhere in San Francisco and have selected a Li-ion battery supplier, but there is currently no battery delivery date. They don't know if the monocoque body will be made of steel or some other material, like hand-formed fiberglass. City Bike notes that 12 months isn't lot of time to set up a factory, order tooling, train workers, work out the supply chain and a thousand other details". The magazine says that they wouldn't invest in the company, but if they produce a working production prototype they are willing to give it a try. To date, Lit has filed for 14 patents and has been granted 3. ::)
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Gosh, why not put a 16 kWh battery in there and go for 400 miles.. ;D
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8kWh and 200 miles sounds a bit optimistic.
I would be surprised if they can do 100 miles on 8kWh (in real world use).
Those gyroscopes will like some juice. The aerodynamics will be better though.
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Aero doesn't really become a factor until about 45mph. 200mi on 8kwh is like 40wh/m. Pretty close to electric bicycle territory.
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Aero is still a pretty big factor below 45 mph, but it doesn't become a dominant factor until around there.
40 Wh/mile, ~800 pounds, and an uncovered front tire don't compute.
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IIRC, the City Bike article cited the company marketing person saying the range figure was a deduction from another streamliner that someone else built. In other words, they just have SWAG's at this point, but that doesn't stop them from marketing their guesses! (It's the American Way!)