ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLES! | The Reason I HATE Talking About them!
[Music] Hey everybody. Hope you’re all doing all right out there. So today I want to talk about the looks like the return of Enikica. Yes, an electric motorcycle brand, which means we’re talking about electric bikes, which means the comments are now going to get filled with the same old stuff that they always get filled with. So, as I know most of the people who say that stuff don’t listen to, you know, like science or or any of those sorts of things. You go ahead, leave your comments. I’m just going to head off a few of them right now. So, um, no one wants an electric motorcycle. That’s quite true. Not many people do, and that’s one of the things I want to talk about in this video. However, companies like Zero have existed for a very long time. So, people are buying and using electric bikes. People do own electric bikes, and they do like them. Just because you don’t like them doesn’t change what someone else likes or doesn’t like. I think that’s quite important that people need to understand that for many things at the moment. Uh the charging infrastructure is not there. Yeah, fast chargers not great. Uh there are still copper lines going to your house with a plug and most people can charge the bike overnight and it covers their average daily commute because most people like to talk about like you know it’s like when people buy a diving watch that can go to 10,000 mters and they need it to go in a bath. They’d like a bike to have a 200 mile tank range more, but they’ll only use like 20 miles of it most of the time. Statistically, not everyone. Statistically, they’re overpriced. Well, they would be overpriced if there was a cheaper option you could buy that was the same as it that was cheaper. And you will say, well, you buy a petrol bike. It’s not an electric bike. It’s not the same thing, is it? So, again, that one goes out the window. Um, the electrical grid can’t deal with it. as if peak demand wasn’t actually reached and it’s been falling since about 15 years ago. Yes, because of all the energy efficient devices we have now, we are using less electricity at once than we used to. If everyone switched over to an electric car, well then the the grid couldn’t cope. When they if they ban internal combustion engines, they are not going to ban your petrol bike. It’s not like overnight every single person on the planet goes from having a petrol to an electric or even in the country. That’s not going to happen either. So, it’s not going to be like an overnight switchover that they can’t cope with. Electric bikes aren’t better for the environment. Couldn’t tell you. And I’ve never argued that point. Lithium batteries are terrible for the environment. The mining for them is awful. Correct. So, is making one of those and burning the fuel in it. So, hydrogen is the future. No, it isn’t. Science says it isn’t. Maths says it isn’t. Chemistry, hello, says it isn’t. Uh, I’ve got a video on that. And, uh, this is one of the amazing things. Every time I ever see anyone talking about an electric bike and then someone starts saying, “I hate those.” They’re like, “The future is hydrogen.” And they make themselves look like a fool to anyone who actually understands any of it. Because I’m sorry, hydrogen bikes not the future. Hydrogen is not the future for individual bikes or small cars. And if you want any proof of that, the hydrogen industry has collapsed in the past few years. all the money that was put into it is being pulled back out because they’re realizing why do you go through this whole process of turning electricity into hydrogen to turn it back into electricity or waste it if you’re using an internal combustion engine. As I say, I have videos on all of this and I know none of you will watch it, so it’s fine. This is the problem, right, that really does annoy me. I like electric bikes regardless of whether it’s the future, regardless of whether it has anything to do with um, you know, eco stuff or any of that. They’re a bike that’s available and the experience you have on them is different to petrol, but for some reason people have like a hobby of hating electric bikes when they haven’t ridden one or they’re not interested in them. And then then it’s like, well, hang on a minute. That’s like, do I go around saying that, you know, all romcoms are awful or all soap operas are awful? No, I don’t like them, but I don’t go around like goating on the fact that, oh, they should they should go away. Like I have more of my life to do than that and I also understand that other people like things I don’t like. This is where you have to separate the politics from it and if you can do that then you can have an actual conversation about them. Literally saying all that will make no difference to what’s in the comments. I want to talk about Enerica because they make the Xeria or they made the Xeria. Well, they make I don’t know if they’re actually got any production going on at the moment at all. I’m guessing not. um is the best electric motorcycle that has ever been made as a replacement to a petrol because it had really good charging on it, really good range, really nice bike to ride. It’s also really expensive. It was like 28 grand, 30 grand, and that’s one of the problems that I’ll admit is true, and I’ll get on to that as I say in this video. So, Energy basically they’ve uh been saved by investors in Singapore that believe in the company and what they do and that’s why they’re going to be coming back. But this is where the problem comes. There are very few people that actually like electric motorcycles and even people that are like, I rode it, I love it, but it actually can’t do what I need. Truthfully, that’s fair enough. This is the thing, right? I have no problem with people saying electric bike can’t do what I need it to do. But when when most of the people you talk to about electric bikes don’t, you know, they’re never going to buy one. They may not even have a bike, but they decide that it’s now time to start spaling off all this stuff that they’ve heard on Facebook and heard from other people and never looked into themselves. But then I’m not surprised by that to be completely fair cuz people don’t people can’t even watch videos to find things out. They just ask questions in comments like it’s Google. So as I say, I’m really happy to see that Enerica are coming back because I absolutely loved riding their bikes. They were great. Could I afford one? No, but I could still appreciate what it was and still love it. And I lived with them for about 3 to what two to four weeks depending on which model it was at the time. So I lived with it daily. I I had to go and do the charging. I had to have well supposedly have the range anxiety which I never did. Uh it was fine for me. That’s not to say it won’t be fine for everyone, but it was fine for me and I love the experience with them. So I’m really glad to say they’re coming back. But this is part of it. I don’t think it’s going to work very well because there are very very few people out there who really actively like electric bikes and I mean the price is very high. Yes. But then if you do a comparison say for instance a uh a Zero SRS is about £18,000 £19,000 and a JigsR is about the same price. So, you can either buy the Jixa000 brand new or you could get a electric SR zero SRS. Now, performance-wise, yeah, the petrol’s got more top speed. Can’t really use that in the UK on the roads legally, but okay. People want to argue that you can, you can’t. So, torque is what it’s all about. And the electrics will just rip your face off. I mean, at the end of the day, look at all the the records around the place. new records are set all the time at tracks and it’s nearly always an electric. They always because they are so much faster. But this is this is kind of where I’m getting to this giving that I’ve had to give this many caveats to what I’m saying and I know it makes no difference and keeping in mind that the Energy Experia for instance is nearly 30 grand. So it’s 10 grand more than the like the top zero. It’s a big ask. So unless they’re planning to come back and try and get their prices in line with the electric companies who make electric bikes, they’re always going to be the most expensive one. And I even though the technology I think, yeah, it’s there. It’s worth it. It’s that good. It’s the first bike that actually felt like, yeah, you could just use this like a petrol and it’s actually more convenient and better. Not in all aspects, but as a functioning motorcycle, they are amazing. Oh god. Oh, I forgot. What’s the other one? uh you’re going to die because your bike’s silent. No, that’s on you, not other people. And um I’ve got a video on that, too. Is literally every argument there is, common argument there is about electric bikes, which is untrue, I have made a video talking about. I know about battery chemistries and that sort of stuff and the physics of of where energy is lost and why an internal combustion hydrogen is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea even compared to an electric. I can say this, but people won’t listen. I mean, you can look at the one hydrogen bike there is that um that Kawasaki. Do you know why it’s got the giant caboose? That’s cuz it’s got six hydrogen tanks in the back, which will most likely be leaking because hydrogen can actually leak through steel cylinders. It’s just the whole technology top to bottom is a bad idea. And people are like, “Oh, electric’s always catching fire. Jesus, do you want to see a hydrogen explosion?” Plus the energy density, blah blah blah. You basically if you had a normal size tank of hydrogen on a bike, you would get like 70 mi or something silly. It would be it would be nothing. This is true things. Has that changed your opinion or do you still think hydrogen’s the future? Probably still think hydrogen’s the future, right? As you can tell, I would really like to have just made this video being like, “Hey, Energy is back. That’s quite cool.” But I do hope they get the prices down because I think the reason they went away before might have something to do why they might not survive in the future. And the thing is now we’re even in the most like difficult time we’ve had in decades if not longer. Uh and no one’s got any money and people for some reason now a lot of biking is about how you’re seen by others. So there are lots of people out there are like no do you know what actually I like electric bikes. I buy one but my mates are god they they give me crap for it. And you’re like well they’re not really your mates then are you are they? If a friend can’t accept you for who you are in your tastes, even if they’re different to their own, they’re not your mate. And I think most people learn that in their teens. But whatever. I just I’m going on quite the thing. I’m not making stuff up here. I’ve made videos on electric bikes for years and I’ve read thousands of comments from people. So, I get a real good feeling of the undertone of what people think about things. There’s a lot of people out there, by the way, who love electric bikes, but do you know why they don’t ever see comments from them? because they’re sick and tired of hearing the same old things being said back to them like it makes any difference. And note here, I’m not saying that anyone is wrong for not liking electric bikes. If you just don’t like them, if they’re not your flavor, that’s fine. If you say you don’t like coffee, fine, have a tea. You don’t like tea, have water. I don’t know. I don’t drink tea or coffee myself. And that’s that’s the thing I’ve always had. You don’t like tea or coffee? Like, yes, other people have different tastes to you. Not everyone is you. Thank God. Otherwise, the world would be very boring. Um, but yeah, I mean, all of this kind of does sort of explain why I think Energy is going to have a problem because if the prices are as high as they were before, there will be people like me that’ll be like, “Give me one. I want I want to review it. I want to tell people how great this thing is and I’ll experience it and I’ll love it. Maybe maybe I’ll don’t like it if they’ve done something wrong.” You know, I do honest reviews. That’s the big point here. And then I’ll give it back to them. I’ll never be able to afford one. And when the general sort of status quo is hate on anything electric, oh, you know, and all the things I’ve said up to this point, even though most of them aren’t true, that’s the thing that’s holding electrics back more than anything, is misinformation and uh biases. And if you, as I say, if you don’t want an electric ever, that’s cool. You don’t ever have to do that. I’m not planning on buying an electric. This bike is 15 years old. My other bike is like 18 years old. I’m not planning on like buying an electric anytime soon. In the same way, I’m not planning on buying a new bike anytime soon. I think these are from the era of when bikes were good, you know, when riders needed to have more skill. I don’t have traction control or ABS or anything like that on any of my bikes. It’s down to me to do that. I’m happy with that. That is not to say that if you have ABS, you’re not as good a rider. I’m not saying that. What I’m saying is the bar for entry, the skill bar is a bit higher on the older bikes. And nearly everyone agrees that, you know, the old manual bikes were so much more fun. You know, you don’t want the electronics doing it all for you. But then every single bike nowadays has sold it. Even at the new DRZ 400 SM has traction control. Why? For safety. Cuz it makes your insurance cheaper and stuff like that. That’s fine. And that’s that actually is a lot of it. If you have ABS on your bike and if you have traction control, apparently that makes your premium less because the problem with the system is the thing in control and if you make a mistake, well, the bike will try and help you as much as it can. On this bike, if I slam the front brake on as hard as I can, it’s going to lock up and I’m going to go down. That won’t happen on an ABS bike. It’s that simple. So, I can make a mistake. I can panic break on an ABS and not have that problem. Whereas with this bike, I have to know I do it right and adjust that for grip conditions and weather conditions. This is the thing, right? I’m not arguing that any of you should go and buy an electric bike. I don’t think that at all. I think you should buy whatever you want. But the point is, you can’t talk about these things honestly or know the truth about them because there’s so much misinformation out there and so many people saying so much stuff that just factually, provably isn’t true. And you can say, “Hey, look, here’s a video I made. It’s 30 minutes long. It’s to explain to you why electric batteries are better than hydrogen for a motorcycle internal combustion.” And people won’t watch it. They’re not going to watch that and then go, “Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, All right, fair enough. Now you’re pointing out the actual thing about it. It totally makes sense that that wouldn’t work. In fact, I wouldn’t want that.” Of course, a lot of this also comes down to are they even going to ban internal combustion engines? When will bikes be banned? Will they ban bikes? Yes, I believe they’re going to do this. I think the the current dates are hopeful, but there is quite a lot of electric cars out there now. Although, I’m currently looking at number plates so I can go there’s an electric, there’s an electric cuz on the little island I live on, they’re everywhere. But the reason that is is because it’s old people who lease them. They have them at home. They charge them once a week. They do their five 10 minute 10-minute drive every day or every few days and they work perfectly for them. They don’t have to get oil changes done and all that sort of stuff. They really work there and and that’s part of the point here. Electrics can exist next to petrols and even when if they ban them, they still will because it’s not going to be illegal to ride a petrol bike and they’re not I have said in the future they will probably tax the crap out of petrol itself. So anyone that wants to keep using one pays more and more and more to the point you’re like, “Wow, actually now the electric is starting to convince me. I’m probably probably going to have to do that just to afford it.” And then people there’ll be this whole switch over when people like, “Well, well, well, well, well, now I can’t afford my petrol bike and the electric bikes are actually quite good.” And you know, I didn’t even think they were that bad. I guess this video I wanted to make a video talking about Energy coming back, but what I’m actually doing is talking about my frustrations of just trying to talk about electric bikes. can’t have, you know, a normal conversation about them without someone just from the corner screaming, “I don’t like them,” and then saying a load of stuff that just isn’t true. Was true maybe at some point isn’t true anymore. You never see nuance conversations anymore. It’s either this or that. Just always this or that. There is no war actually isn’t the I mean in the other day in a video where I talked about you know things to talk about how I want to keep away from politics because my views tend to be towards the middle because you know that’s where the truth tends to lie. Not the far one side or the far the other side. There’s going to be bits and pieces in between the two that are going to be true and bits in between pieces between the two which are going to be false. And even though I didn’t mention anything political in that video, I got had a go at because no, it’s not in the middle. That means you’re not believing the truth. Yes. Because of I’m sorry. Historically, if you believe one side completely or the other side completely, you are not getting the full picture because the victor writes the history. And also misinformation, propaganda, and time does a lot. So I can get why politics are a problem to talk about. But talking about electric bikes feels just as bad. And then it’s like, well, yeah, because you’re not talking about electric bikes anymore. You’re just talking about political issues. And it just brings out all these arguments. And again, as I say, they lead back to non-truths most of the time. So yeah, good luck, Anica. I absolutely love your bikes and I hope that you can succeed and supply bikes to the people that want them at a price they can afford and a price you can survive on. I’d also love a test ride cuz I like riding them even if I can’t own one. As you can tell, this this didn’t go in the direction I wanted to, but it’s cuz I’m so frustrated about wanting to talk about electric bikes for being electric bikes. You know, people love e scooters, people love all these other things, but when it comes to an electric bike, you can’t even have a conversation about them without being told stuff that just isn’t true or is blown way out of proportion. As I say, apologies if I’m uh ranting again, but it’s this is my job, man. This is my outlet. This is what I do. and and I need to talk about things and it I find it very difficult to have a real conversation about a real subject without dealing with un I mean how am I going to put this um less than informed opinions produced as facts. So, you can’t even have a starting of a conversation because you’re not on the same page or even in the same book. Normally, I leave you with a question. I don’t have any questions. I know exactly what I’m going to be reading in the comments. All I can do is say I have a set of videos covering all these things. You can look at my electric motorcycles playlist. You can see all the reviews I’ve done on them and all the videos I’ve done talking about the science of them and all that sort of stuff. But then I get a feeling some people don’t listen to science quite the way that we used to. And yeah, that’s another thing. There you go. Like the video if you liked it. Support the channel if you’d like to support me. And I’ll catch you in the next one. Bye-bye. [Music] Hey you.
I wanted this video to be about the return of Energica, but it just reminds me of the thousands of comments I have read, and even to this day, the same handful of not exactly true arguments are used all the time. Meaning you can never just have a conversation about the damn bike! Warning, this gets a little ranty! lol
Yes, for some of you, using an electric bike may not be feasible, whether that be due to range or a lack of charging options overnight. Perhaps you drive over 500 miles a week. That is totally valid. It doesn’t change the averages.
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