How To Choose Electric Motorcycle
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Electric motorcycle should be choose based on type, user, usage, comfort, experience, battery, range, power, speed, charing, technology and price.
Brief Introduction
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Looks just like regular gasoline motorcycles, Electric motorcycles are accepted by user day by day, because of the zero emissions, quieter running as well as high level torque and acceleration.
They use battery instead of a tank of gasoline to power the electric motors; and most of them don't use chains carburetors gears and many other components, which makes the using of electric motorcycles more easy and worry-free. At the same time, there are less noise than gasoline powered motorcycles, which makes the riding more comfortable. Well, so many advantages with electric motorcycles, i am sure you are planning to have your own electric motorcycles.
Most traditional motorcycles prefer to stick on their classic products, which leave space for many new manufactures entered the yards of electric motorcycles in past years. This bring us more options for choosing. Then we come to the next step, how to choose an electric motorcycle. The type, aim, model, riding experience, range, power, speed, noise, charging time, comfort, and price of electric motorcycles are all possible to affect our selection. Lets dive into the details and hope our ideas are helpful when you make your choice.
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- Section : Tips
- Key Word : how to choose electric motorcycle, how to select your electric motorcycle
- Author : Jasper
- Industry : Electric Motorcycle
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How Traders To Choose Electric Motocycle
Market Research
Market research is necessary to be made if you are planning to enter the electric motorcycle market. You need to know whether electric motorcycles are acceptable and what kind of electric motorcycle are needed in this area.
It is a good idea to visit local electric motorcycle club to find possibility of cooperation or at least get in touch with the direct user to know the motorcycle they prefer. Most of them are happy to communicate the using experience or request with you. It is even not a bad idea to visit traditional motorcycle club to find some chance.
Living district and factory are good places to know the possibility of commuting electric motorcycle.
Customer
If you put yourself in electric motorcycle several year ago, then you must have some VIP customers, such as company, factory or club.
Most clubs prefer to have the most advanced, newest, or the most powerful product. Standard electric motorcycle with the best price efficiency are preferred by companies. Keeping this in mind is helpful to choose appropriate electric motorcycles to each VIP customer.
Feedback
You are suggested to send an email or just call your customer several months after they bought your Electric motorcycle. It is part of customer service, at the same time you can get some feedback on this kind of product. You may get the data that which kind or which brand is welcomed by direct users. Then you can choose more product from the same manufacture. For sure, some product with negative feedback will be cut off from your list.
Manufacture
Choosing electric motorcycle from manufacture offers you the best price for same brand or same type. With the developing of international shipping, it is easy to buy goods world wide, which offers you more options of electric motorcycle manufacture selecting. Sample is possible at almost all manufactures, which help you to know the quality of their product.
You will be the VIP customer after several buying from the same manufacture. It is convenient to communicate the details of the product before making next buying. You even can tailor your own electric motorcycle, which is very helpful to cater the need of your direct users.
How Direct User Choose Electric Motorcycle
Type
To a beginners, all motorcycles or bikes powered by electricity should be called electric-motorcycles. This is not wrong, but not accurate. Actually, there are many type of products in this category, between electric motorcycles and electric bikes. It is important to know the difference when we choose one of them, although some buyers do not mind it is electric motorcycle or electric bike.
When talking about electric motorcycles, we use it on the main road with other 4 wheeled vehicles, with the highest speed, range and the most powerful battery. Not permitted to be sued on bike path or sidewalks, electric motorcycles requires driving license. If you think the speed and range are the important factors to be considered, then electric motorcycles is the best choice. It can take you to a further place within shorter time.
Electric scooters offers a deck to make it possible to hold your foot, comfortably. This is a kind of two-wheeled vehicle between electric motorcycle and electric bike, offering various kinds of wheels, deck, size, speed and range. Driving license is not needed in most countries. If you are finding an electric-motorcycles for commuting of more than 10 km, this product should be considered first.
Speed people use this electric scooters on main road, gentle people use it on bike path. You may decide this on on the ability of the vehicle as well as your riding speed. You are not permitted to use it on sidewalks.
Electric bikes is the best choice if you are find a vehicle for commuting within 10 km. It was produced by adding an electric motor and battery to a traditional bicycle. And it can be used as a petal-powered bike after the battery out of energy. License is not needed when you ride electric bike, and you can only use it on bike path.
Usage
Different electric motorcycle should be choose because each user have their own lifestyle.
If you love traveling, a comfortable riding electric motorcycle with the biggest range should be choose, oh yes, its better to have one to three extra storage boxes.
The best shock absorber, high ground clearance, off-road tires and wire-spoke wheels are the requirements for choosing an off-road electric motorcycle.
It is comparatively easy to choose electric motorcycle for commuting. Comfortable riding and low price should be considered first. Even an electric bike can complete this job.
The most powerful electric motor should be choose when you use the electric motorcycle for tracking riding. And don't ignore the brake system, as well as your riding ability, to suit the super power.
Comfort
Nothing is more important than comfortable riding when you choose an electric motorcycles. Comfortable riding is closely related with dimension, weight, seat height, handlebar height and riding position.
You may choose the same dimensions with your old motorcycles if you are an experienced rider.
If you are a beginner, you can provide your data to the sales, such as your height, weight, length of arm, length of leg, etc. They will give you suggestion.
Compared with racing or canyon carving motorcycle, the leisure electric motorcycles with upright posture makes your riding more comfortable.
If you don't have the idea of posture, dimension and seat hight, perhaps you should visit an electric motorcycle shop and try some motorcycles to choose the most comfortable one.
Experience
According to the power of motor, the electric motorcycle falls into standard and powerful level.
Inexperienced riders are not suggested to choose powerful electric motorcycle, which is not easy to be controlled. Most sports motorcycles offers powerful motor, which needs more experience to hold the balance.
Standard-powered electric motorcycle is not outstanding, but it enough for first-time user, which is helpful to keep you safe.
Range
Range refers to the maximum distance an electric motorcycle can go after fully charged. If you are using the electric commuting, perhaps 100km is enough, because it is convenient to be charged after returning back to home. But if you use this electric motorcycle for touring, then the higher the range the better, because you do not wish to stop and wait several hours for charging.
Each type or brand of electric motorcycle offers different range. For example, lighter electric motorcycle is around 100km, some heavy motorcycle is around 400km. You are suggested to look at the specifications from manufacture to make sure it is your style before you make final decision.
Power and Speed
Measured in kilowatts or horsepower, Power determines the horsepower of an electric motorcycle. One horsepower equals 0.746 kilowatts of electrical horsepower. The power shows the actual strength of your electric motorcycle. It is one of the things associated with the performance of your electric motorcycle. For example, it decides the time to reach speed of 100km /hour from stationary state. Most electric motorcycle did better than traditional motorcycle on this.
Speed of an electric motorcycle depends on the engine power and the weight of whole vehicle. High power combines lightweight leads to better ability of speeding up. Some electric motorcycle already faster than traditional gasoline motorcycle.
If you are choosing an electric motorcycle for racing or canyon carving, then you can choose a lightweight machine with great power, which makes you the cool and speedy rider. But this is not to say the high power the better, it should be fit with your riding ability. It is pretty dangerous if your riding skill is not up to the horsepower.
A medium or low power motorcycle is enough if you buy it for commuting, because, in general, more power leads to higher cost.
Higher power with medium weight is suggested if you are looking for an electric motorcycle for touring, which make it possible to accelerate very quick when necessary, especially when you use it for a long trip.
Charging
The charging time refers to the time to fill the battery with electricity. This data is quite important to an electric motorcycle.
All electric motorcycles are equipped with standard chargers, which need around 10 hours to refresh the battery. Some advanced motorcycle are equipped with an extra fast chargers, which can complete the charging within 3 hours.
If you use the electric motorcycle for commuting, a standard charger is enough. If you often ride it for touring or canyon carving, you are suggested to choose fast-charging motorcycle, although you need pay extra cost for this function, but it worth the money.
Battery
Being one of the most important components of an electric motorcycle, battery can be charged within a number of time. And the number of times is called the battery life.
Lead-acid batteries, Gel batteries and Lithium-ion battery are all available in the market. Lithium-ion battery is the best one among them, because of the lightweight and maintenance free. At the same time, lithium-ion battery provides unbelievable power, which make it works very well on large electric motorcycles.
So when you choose electric motorcycles for racing or canyon carving, lithium-ion battery are suggested because of the efficiency, power and life. Standard battery is suggested if you use it in downtown, because of their beautiful price.
Cost
With the developing of electric motorcycles, the price range is wide, from economic to deluxe type. There is an electric motorcycle to suit your budget. For sure, the more you pay, the more you get in terms of dimension, range, power and performance. You are suggested to choose your electric motorcycle according to your budget and your usage.
Noise
Electric motorcycle do make some noise. It is a kind of high-pitched whirring sound, which is much lower than traditional gasoline motorcycle. Theoretically, more power leads to more noise. But the noise is limited. Your neighbor will never be bothered by your motorcycle. So the noise doses not really affect your electric motorcycle choosing.
Technology
Compared with traditional motorcycle using gasoline, Electric motorcycles features more technology, such as interactive dash, speed-direction tracking and waring system based on radar, camera and in-visual sensors.
Many manufactures of electric motorcycle are developing their own App to make the riding more safe and connectively. With the developing of electric motorcycles, keyless starting, fingerprint starting, vehicle GPS positioning and vehicle fault alarm will be available on most electric motorcycles.
When you choose an electric motorcycles, you are not suggested to choose the product with the newest technology, because the newest technology leads to a much higher cost.