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FAKE! It's an empty box. Stark is a scam. Bryan is a paid actor. And so on... But seriously, congrats.

I am sure that the battery will likely be smart enough not to energise the HV outputs until it confirms that the cables are correctly plugged in.

The 21700 cells are 70 grams each, so 400 is 28 kg. Add to that the casing and other gubbins aside from the cells. You could definitely save 10 kg at a cost of a third of the capacity. I can definitely see Stark coming out with a set of options for weight vs capacity. I'd love to see a...

Going from P42A to P45B, the cell weights are the same so no change there. The cost, however... I've seen quotes of US$6 for P42A, US$10 for P45B. Four dollars more for four hundred cells equals ouch. Obviously that's retail and not the price that Stark would pay, but a two-thirds bump on the...

Then the first goal should be to stop the battery from heating up - Stark have switched to the Molicell P45B cells, with a third lower DC internal resistance. That's a third less heat into the pack than the P42A cells they were initially using. Then the next goal is cells that can work at...

That's the Molicell P45B instead of the P42A.? That explains the price of the battery. Those cells are pricey.

To your credit, with today's update fromStark it looks you're right on point 1.

This is good news but the real story for batteries isn't one single advance. It's continued improvements in every part, every year, year on year, until it's good enough, and then it keeps getting better until batteries crush the opposition. Better anodes, cathodes, electrolytes, separators. New...

I've got to disagree on this one. Cooling loads on electric are very much lower because end-to-end efficiencies are so much higher. If a bike is putting down 35 kW at the wheel and it's electric at 85% overall then it needs to dump 6 kW of heat. If that bike is petrol at 25% then it needs to...

I'm reading that as "this race series allows electric bikes to compete" and not as "Stark will compete in this race series". Have Stark said anything about whether they'll enter?

EU has a bunch of standards for electric vehicle batteries that manufacturers must meet to be able to sell EVs in Europe. Homologation means meeting these standards. They cover battery safety, mechanical shock, vibration testing, fire safety, shorts protection, etc... I thinkEU is also bringing...

I've ordered grey but can't work out if I like it or not. But white will show the dirt and red will look like a Honda, so grey it is. Maybe with all the petrolheads calling electric bikes gay, I'll just go with that and get a full rainbow for a wrap.

Let's remember just how different the US motorbike market is to the rest of the world. Harley Davidson gets lots of media and cultural attention. They sell 200,000 bikes per year, two-thirds of those are in the US. Royal Enfield? 1 million per year, all 650cc or less Bajaj? 6 million per...

Hopefully not, but I think Stark is a different situation to Alta. Alta needed cash or they would die. They had an ok bike with ok sales and needed substantial funding for the next generation bike. Harley hooked them on that with the promise of cash, then dropped them. Alta couldn't pay the...

And Royal Enfield announced last month that they're working on electric bikes. Release is planned for 2025, so that fits with them making use of Stark tech.

I work in tech venture capital. This deal makes sense to me. Stark wants to go big and mx is small. Like tiny. We're raving about Stark having 17,000 orders. Royal Enfield sell about a million bikes a year. Stark has to go big. That means road bikes and taking market share from existing...

Look at it this way - you're not paying for petrol, for oil, for new top ends. Stark aren't going to make money off you from maintenance and regular spare parts. I'm ok with a subscription model, you're just paying for different things than on previous bikes. I'm expecting it'll still work out...

The Electric Motion Escape bikes have 2.7 kWh batteries. That seems plenty for this kind of race, so I'm thinking the Stark with 6 kWh will have plenty.

At top speed, a Bugatti Veyron will empty it's fuel tank in twelve minutes. The Stark will do about the same if you're sitting with a wide open throttle, but you'll never do that in normal riding, unless your normal ride is in a straight line across a dry lake bed.