Despite getting hit for six by COVID, Melbourne-based electric motorbike company Savic is back in the game…
In a ground breaking move, they recently unveiled their new production C-Series cafe racer style bikes on Facebook — the first high-performance electric motorbikes made in Australia.
Available in three models, Alpha, Delta and Omega, they vary from a 25 kW city ride to a 60 kW road trip with 2 to 4 hour charge times. The Alpha can reach 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds, The Delta in 4.5 and The Omega in 5.5. Not bad for plug in power.
Surprisingly, the batteries are smaller than those found on the Zero (14.4 kWh), Harley-Davidson LiveWire (15.5 kWh), and Energica (21 kWh) bikes. The largest capacity from Savic is the 11 kWh unit in the Alpha paired with a 60 kW motor made of billet machined aluminum with a red belt that not only looks cool – but makes it go faster. The design showcases the large battery wrapped in cooling fins, with the motor virtually disappearing into the single-sided swingarm. Savic hasn’t skipped the chassis equipment either, pairing the forks and rear shocks with chunky and trusty Brembo monoblock calipers.
All models include attention grabbing fibreglass bodywork, regenerative braking, and riding modes with an in-house colour digital display. All this on a budget too — for the first time in the company’s history, everything from the nuts, rims, and axles, is all their own design and in-house engineering.
Thirty-one out of the 50 first-run production vehicles have already been ordered from $12,990 to $23,990. It’s no mean feat, Savic have produced an all Aussie cafe racer which costs 80% less to run than a non-electric under the cloud of the pandemic — this is one Aussie battler who is sticking it to these tough times.
By Bill Varetimidis
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