Electrobike racing from France

With its new electric motorcycle company H-KER expects next year to enter the starting grid championship FIM eRoadRacing.

From about the end of the last decade in various tournaments around the world have begun to hold competitions, where the speed of the track racers competed on elektrobaykah. Gradually, the individual races were organized into several independent series, the most famous being the TTXGP and FIM e-Power. This spring, the International Motorcycle Federation (FIM) announced an agreement with TTXGP on the establishment of a new racing series for motorcycles with electric motors. The new series will be held in the format of the World Cup, and 2013 will be the first season of the new competition. Four races of the new series will take place in Europe and the U.S., and the finale will be held in Asia. In 2014, the calendar will include the past six races, which will take place on three continents.

In preparation for the 2014 FIM eRoadRacing French company H-KER is actively working on his new motorcycle racing and has already presented the first sketch of the prototype. The new machine is based on a model of H-KERFirst, manufactured by the company at the moment, but its characteristics have significantly outperformed its predecessor. It is expected that the 2014 model year will be to develop the capacity of about 150 horsepower and accelerates to 280 km / h Unfortunately, until the championship eRoadRacing is in its infancy, as represented by only three major producers elektrobaykov. But in the H-KER are making every effort to Top racing season bring a working prototype and share the grid with such well-known manufacturers of electric motorcycles, such as Brammo, Zero and Zongshen.