Michael Czysz did a pre-race Q&A with Asphalt & Rubber.
One thing that stood out:
That’s one of the things that makes us different from Kingston and Mugen. They’ve said specifically that their bikes are designed to run only at the Isle of Man. Kingston has no interest in racing elsewhere, and Mugen has said they build the Shinden to specifically break the 100 mph lap. So if they want to come with a 50 lbs heavier bike, which they have, and that means 50 more pounds of batteries than us, then that’s a fine call for the Isle of Man, but that would be devastating if you wanted to do other things with the bike, and we do.
The 2012 E1PC bikes are 14+ kWh. Rumor and speculation pegs the Mugen bike at ~20 kWh .. as large of a pack as the Honda Fit EV. Even if it's not quite that large, certainly it is massive and the bike is significantly larger than the MotoCzysz.
I recall one of the posted videos had a short pre-race interview with Michael Miller (Mugen rider). After bluntly correcting the announcer's glib comment that the race would be "great fun"
, he expressed concern about the race, saying that to win he had to carry a lot of speed through the corners (because of battery capacity limitations), and doing so on a heavy bike in wet conditions was giving him some concern.
