According the last Post from officialcurtissmotor, and the recent announce from Confederate Motors at the Concours D’Elegance at Pebble Beach in Monterey, for a partnership with Zero Motorcycles to develop an all-electric cruiser model called the Hercules.Their president Matt Chambers says that they reached the limits of what they can do with internal combustion engines.
Chambers told Los Angeles Times:
“We can’t go any further than this. We’ve hit the ceiling. This is it.”
So interlined you read that the company responsible for making some of the most astonishing V-twin cruisers is taking a virage at 360 degres electric. awesome donut, guys !
For us, it's the last moments you can buy one of their last 13 units of the $155,000, 150 horsepower, and 165 pound-feet of torque Bomber motorcycle, which will be the last bike under the ‘Confederate Motors’ name before they change it to Curtiss Motorcycles and go all-electric.
Matt Chambers said that the first electric vehicle they are working on is a twin-motor cruiser bike that
“will produce the equivalent of 175 horsepower and 290 pound-feet of torque.”
A 28-year-old Glenn Curtiss sets an unofficial land speed record of 136.36 mph with an air-cooled, 4410cc, 40-hp, V-8-powered Curtiss motorcycle in Florida in January 1907. Courtesy of Glenn Curtiss Museum
Accordingly to these last instagram post, "Hell Rider" nickname from Glenn Curtiss could be back too. Most known for putting airplane engine on bike frame, and doing speed record on that machine.
What do you think of it ?