This column goes out to all the engineers out there, armchair or otherwise, who, like me, try to make sense of a complicated world through the deciphering of numbers. The subject for today’s treatise in motorcycle engineering will be energy density; more specifically, the energy density that motorcycle lithium-ion batteries will have to attain to offer the equivalent weight and range of a comparable gasoline-fueled motorcycle. And, by way of example, I’ll be using what we all must presume will be the world’s most advanced electric bike: Ducati’s new MotoE racer.
The reason for
