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It's only a 20-second video, but it confirms that Kawasaki works on an electric motorcycle: the EV Endeavor
It's only a 20-second video, but it confirms that Kawasaki works on an electric motorcycle: the EV Endeavor

Video: It's only a 20-second video, but it confirms that Kawasaki works on an electric motorcycle: the EV Endeavor

Video: It's only a 20-second video, but it confirms that Kawasaki works on an electric motorcycle: the EV Endeavor
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If in the last Milan show there was already a preview of the electric motorcycle prototype on which Kawasaki is working, now they have decided to gradually filter a series of short videos in which new details of the one that has passed from be called EV Project to Kawasaki EV Endeavor.

At last we can see the appearance of this mount more clearly and in this chapter called 'The on going challenge' we can already hear the sound in progress of what could well, by its appearance, a Kawasaki ER-6 F, a 650cc model that was discontinued in 2016.

The Kawasaki EV Endeavor could have a range of between 100 and 200 km

With many mysteries still to be solved, the Japanese manufacturer's electric two-wheeler proposal aims to keep the emotions and the feeling of sportiness that so characterizes its models with a heat engine.

During these months there has been talk of a possible interchangeable battery in a set with similar benefits to a Kawasaki Ninja 400, an idea that would certainly be a revolution in the segment that it would occupy and that seems easier to develop than the Kawasaki J Concept, the four-wheeler they said would hit the market soon.

Making use of the cycle part of one of the sports models of the medium or high range of the catalog, we would be talking about an electric motorcycle with one weight more than 200 kg, with a power that could be around 45 hp and a manual gearbox to give it a performance similar to that of a Kawasaki with a gasoline engine. All this taking into account that it presents an alternative to a conventional Ninja 400, which marks 168 kg on the scale in running order.

Yuji Horiuchi, president of Kawasaki, explains that they have "focused on the driving sensations" and that having an electric unit as a propeller "allows for faster power and torque deliveries" that would allow them to be adjusted to the sportsmanship line which he intends to keep on his motorcycles in the future.

We will have to wait to know what they surprise us with from Kawasaki, since so far we have few more references with an electric propulsion system on the market than the Zero SR / F, with 110 hp and up to 320 km of autonomy, or the Harley-Davidson LiveWire, with a maximum of 225 km of autonomy and a performance of 105 CV.

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