Ducati V21L
Whereas the FIM has decided to pull the plug on MotoE at the end of this season, Ducati says its electrical ambitions will proceed to cost on. The Bologna manufacturing facility has confirmed it is going to proceed creating its experience in different applied sciences past inner combustion, even with out the race collection as a platform.
The MotoE mission was initially created to assist Ducati construct inner know-how in order that, if and when battery expertise catches up, the corporate might be prepared to provide an electrical highway bike that also aligns with the efficiency and character anticipated of a Borgo Panigale machine.
Throughout its time within the MotoE World Championship, Ducati has gathered a trove of knowledge from the 18 riders who’ve gone bar-to-bar on its V21L prototype every race weekend.
In simply three years, advances in battery cell expertise have helped shave 8.2 kilograms from the V21L’s battery pack, a stable acquire, although nonetheless not sufficient to get an electrical bike wherever close to the load or vary of a contemporary internal-combustion race machine.
That limitation is precisely why Ducati says it is going to proceed collaborating with different Volkswagen Group manufacturers to push improvement additional. The aim is battery packs with considerably larger power density, and work is already underway.
On September 8, Ducati unveiled a contemporary model of the Ducati V21L on the IAA Mobility present in Munich, fitted with cutting-edge QuantumScape solid-state batteries and developed in collaboration with Audi and PowerCo. Ducati describes this prototype as simply step one in what it sees as a long-term path of analysis and improvement, one it’s decided to maintain following, even because the racing aspect of the mission winds down.
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