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• The best electric motorcycle?
• A solid 301 kilograms on the scales
• The price? Around 30,000 euros
• Sister model Ego should run 240 km / h
• Too impatient for the future?
• How strong, how heavy, how far?

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Energica Eva.

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Central organ: the charge level indicator of the battery moves into (almost) everything dominating focus. Energica’s 11.7 kWh battery corresponds to the energetic equivalent of 1.3 liters of petrol. However: a combustion engine has around 37 percent efficiency, an electric motor over 90 percent.

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Full charge: The roughly 100 kilogram battery and the oil-cooled electric motor are in the tubular space frame.

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Out and in: The four driving modes (left) and the degree of energy recovery (right) can be easily selected.

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CCS – Combined Charging System: The Energica is the only e-motorcycle to have a fast charging connection.

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The calm before the power: It takes around half an hour for the 11.7 kWh battery to be recharged at the quick charging station.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

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Energica Eva.

Energica Eva in the driving report

The best electric motorcycle?

In the current heated mood about electric mobility, an Italian manufacturer is throwing a hot iron into the fire: the Energica Eva. It is currently the fastest and most powerful street-legal electric motorcycle.

Cyclists, only cyclists. Hundreds, thousands. No BMW i3, no Smart electric drive, we certainly don’t see an electric motorcycle. Photographer Zep Gori and I are the only electro-mobilists on the Sella Pass. Cars and motorcycles are locked out every Wednesday in July and August at the Dolomites Pass. At least those with internal combustion engines. But our planned free ride for emission-free citizens turns into a slalom through the puffing bike caravan. We feel out of place. Are we too early for the future? Or just in the wrong place? Actually, the Energica needs E.especially no reserve.

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Energica Eva in the driving report
The best electric motorcycle?

2000 motorcycles in 2019?

95 PS, 200 km / h top speed, zero to 100 in 4.3 seconds – with these key data, the e-car is right in the middle of motorcycle life. Since May 2016, the parent company CRP – a listed, long-standing Formula 1 supplier specializing in 3-D printing – has been mass-producing the Energica Eva at its headquarters in Modena. This year, 40 employees are building 500 machines. 1,000 are planned for the coming season. Breakeven is to be achieved with 2,000 motorcycles as early as 2019. That’s the plan. At least for this future we are still too early now. It is located on the neighboring Passo Gardena. No cyclists, few cars, but all the more motorcycles.

A solid 301 kilograms on the scales

We swing through the curves in a string of pearls made from GS, Multistrada and Super Adventure. We even stick to the fast moving groups. The electric motor can do without a clutch and gearbox as it delivers maximum torque almost from a standstill. The turn is as easy as with a tuned moped. Accelerate, brake, shift, accelerate. Minimal load change reactions, full pressure when applying the e-gas. Great. Only the weight of the Energica Eva doesn’t really fit in with the enthusiasm for lighter scooters. The MOTORRAD scales will later show a solid 301 kilograms. More than half are contributed by the oil-cooled electric motor and the 100 kilo 11.7 kWh battery, which consists of 80 lithium polymer cells. Most bikers don’t realize that we are following their line on e-bikes.

Giuseppe Gori

Central organ: The charge level indicator of the battery moves into (almost) everything dominating focus.

Only at the top of the pass do the eyebrows of the fellow Kradlers rise. The Italian unmistakably outlines the high-frequency howling of the straight-toothed primary drive as a technical eccentric. Did the sound engineers from Emilia-Romagna think too much about the present in this regard? Your intention to make the Energica Eva more aware of pedestrians and the rest of the world is definitely a success with the soundscape similar to a jet drive. To drive the pilot into a sudden hearing loss, too. Even at a distance of several hundred meters, the hum of the e-bike drowns out any moderately driven combustion engine.

The price? Around 30,000 euros

But that’s not the only reason why the Energica Eva always attracts attention everywhere. The interest in the still rare technology is huge. The questions are repeated, as are the reactions to the answers. Electric drive? It’s clear. Power? 95 hp. Measured on the MOTORRAD test bench. Top speed? 200 km / h. The question and answer session was impressed, many even enthusiastic. Range? 107 kilometers at a brisk country road speed. No less here in the mountains. The expressions become more serious. And the price? Around 30,000 euros. As it stands here, with Ohlins suspension and quick-charge connection, almost 36,000 euros. Embarrassed silence. Even a five-year guarantee on the battery can no longer direct the imaginary spotlight back onto the Energica. Too elitist for the present? The market will provide the answer.

Sister model Ego should run 240 km / h

Nevertheless: In order to convince doubters, Energica does what it can. Even electronics grouches can easily zap between the four modes. While the Eco mode is limited to 90 km / h – and therefore does not appear in the acceleration measurements – the Rain, Urban and Sport settings individually enable performance and thus energy consumption. Assuming a sensible control of the throttle hand, the consumption in the other power-saving modes can also be achieved in sport mode. But not the impressive speed. At a line speed of 200 km / h, the Energica will later arrows over the German autobahn during the measurements in sport mode. So far, no electric vehicle has been faster in MOTORRAD test operations. The disguised sister model Ego should even run 240 km / h. After 40 kilometers of express speed, however, the Energica Eva is over. At an average speed of 130 km / h, the range increases to 70 kilometers.

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CCS – Combined Charging System: The Energica is the only e-motorcycle to have a fast charging connection.

Here and now the battery indicator is at ten percent after 100 kilometers. Better safe than sorry. We turn back. The advertising slogan for a chocolate bar – “brings back used energy” – makes us speculate on energy recovery downhill. Recuperation is also very easy to regulate manually. In the strongest of the four stages, the electric motor then acts as a generator with the force of a gently applied brake. For tight corners you need a little tuition from the two Brembo calipers in the front wheel. But their energy evaporates conventionally in the form of hot air. Eleven kilometers and 600 meters further down in the pretty tourist town of Selva, the TFT display shows a battery capacity that is just one percent higher. Even an e-motorcycle is not a perpetual motion machine.

Too impatient for the future?

There is the only fast charging station in the Dolomites. Instead of just under four hours at a household socket, it will take about half an hour before the battery is full again. In the meantime, we can download the app on our smartphone, which shows the charging stations for the way back to Munich. When we installed it, the display of the charging station still shows 15 minutes remaining charging time. Are we too impatient for the future??

How strong, how heavy, how far?

The most important data:

• Nominal power: 70 kW (95 PS)
• Top speed: 200 km / h
• Weight: 301 kg *
• Battery capacity: 11.7 kWh
• Charging time: 3.5 hours (0–95%) with 220 volts, 0.5 hours (0–80%) with Fast Charger
• Base price: 30,226 euros
• Price test motorcycle: 35,712 euros

Driving performance:

• 0–100 km / h: Rain: 8.9 seconds, Urban: 6.1 seconds, Sport: 4.3 seconds
• 0–140 km / h: Rain: 13.7 seconds, Urban: 10.1 seconds, Sport: 7.0 seconds

Range (sport mode) *:

• Country road: Ø 60 km / h – 107 kilometers
• Motorway: Ø 130 km / h – 70 kilometers
• Motorway full throttle: Ø 170 km / h: 40 kilometers

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