Ultraviolette X-47 Review I The everyday electric motorcycle? I BikeWale #bikewale #ultraviolette
[Music] This is the UVX47 and in ultraviolet portfolio, this is the motorcycle that you can easily live with every day. Well, when you look at bikes like the F77 and the F77 Super Street, those bikes are quite committed and focused. Well, this motorcycle as UV says is more versatile. It designed to handle your commuting duties while take you out touring without breaking a sweat. Well, today we are here in the outskirts of Bangaluru to ride this motorcycle and tell you what’s the riding position like, is it comfortable? What’s the performance like? And how well do the features work. On top of that, we will also tell you what are the issues that we face. So, stick around to the end of the video. Full disclaimer here. I have high hopes from the X47 after seeing what Ultraviolet has managed with the F77 and F77 Super Street. From the design to the tech, they’ve got it right. But is that the case with the new bike? [Music] Now, the design of the bike follows the ethos that we’ve seen from Ultraviolets in the past, namely the F77. You got a similar sharp edge to the fuel tank over here. You have these nicely well-rounded side panels, good cuts and creases. I like the aluminium subframe that they give in the hollow aluminium subframe. That looks quite good. And the way the headlight has been integrated with the beak and there are some of the other design bits that I like. Case in point is the way the battery is left exposed yet looks like a cohesive part of the motorcycle. The cover around the motor that sits behind the battery is neat and I also like the shape of the mirror stocks and the design of the alloy wheels. On the whole, the X47 is a good-looking electric motorcycle that manages to look futuristic without appearing outlandish. [Music] The ergonomics of the bike are sporty yet comfortable. If you look at the upper half of my body, it is quite almost upright and that bar is within very easy reach as very easy to maneuver this motorcycle as well. But the lower half is on the sportier side and as you can see the foot pegs are quite rare set causing this bend in my knee. Now we rode the bike for about 60 odd kilometers and in that uh duration I didn’t find any fatigue or any cause for concern but over long durations you might find that this foot peg is a little too rare set and I wish UV would have worked on making the ergonomics a little bit more relaxed at least from the bottom area. But on the whole otherwise this is a very spacious seat as you can see and there’s a lot of room for your pillion as well. The UVX47 has a 30 kW or 40 horsepower permanent magnet AC electric motor and is available in two battery sizes 7.1 kW and 10.3 kW. Ultraviolet has included a plethora of features on the bike including standard radar, a color TFT display with Bluetooth connectivity and three ride boards, glide, combat, and ballistic. Now the performance from this 40 horsepower motor is quite good if you can compare it to something like a RR 310 or close to a 390 Duke. Initial acceleration is quite good in ballistic mode. It feels very quick and very responsive. It gets up to 60 and even 100 kph quite fast but after that the progress feels a little slow. Now this will hit a top speed of 145 km an hour but we didn’t have the room to test that. Whereas when you move to combat or glide mode, the difference in the throttle response is quite significant. In combat, it feels like a good mix between glide as well as ballistic. So, it feels very natural to ride. I also like the throttle calibration and the way the throttle on and off progression happens. That feels quite natural and UV has done a great job with that. I’d usually stick to combat or ballistic mode for the most part considering the way I prefer to ride. The glide mode is a mode that you need to use in the city where you don’t want a lot of rapid acceleration at all. On the whole, the performance is quite impressive on the motorcycle. And I also have to make special mention of the region levels. Now, there are up to nine levels. And I felt in the highest level, the region is a little too much. You probably want to use that when you’re in stop and go city traffic. And you can dial down the region as you wish. But on the whole, the regen feels quite natural in the way it comes in, especially in the mid levels. And that’s something that you can play around with to ensure that you can maximize your range. Speaking of range, the 10.3 kW battery pack offers a range of 323 km as per the IDC. However, if you opt for the 7.1 kWh battery pack, the range stands at 211 km. As for the charging times, it takes 2 hours and 40 minutes to charge the 7.1 kWh battery from 20 to 80% using the optional onboard charger. That time climbs to 4 hours in the case of the 10.3 kWh battery pack. In case you opt for the portable standard charger, the time taken to charge the battery from 20 to 80% is 3 hours in the case of the 7.1 kWh battery and 5 hours for the 10.3 kWh battery. We got a chance to test the radar system and the blind spot alert overtaking traffic alerts and the rear collision warning worked quite well. That said, how effective and efficient is this system in the chaos of Indian traffic is something that only a road test will reveal. Now, the handling of the bike has actually surprised me quite a lot. Usually when you look at electric motorcycles and a big battery that’s hanging in the front, you might think that it’s quite unwieldy and difficult to turn around, but that’s not the case with this motorcycle. We were out riding on a pretty fast go-kart track with a few chicanees and tight corners as well as fast righthanders. And through all of that, this motorcycle really shown through, especially in direction changes where, for example, you’re going from left into right. It’s quite a fast chicane and it just needs a gentle push on the bar for the bike to turn from left to right and that’s it. So the weight distribution is actually quite good. These tires despite their pattern they were quite grippy on the star but I have to yet ride this bike on a wet concrete surface say in Mumbai to actually give you a more definitive conclusion about what the grip levels are like. But for most of the users out there and the speed that they’ll be riding at I think these tires should suffice quite well. That said, I wish UV offered proper road tires to fully exploit the handling progress of this bike. After all, this is not an adventure bike, especially with a 17-in front wheel, and most road tires can handle the odd trail that they’ll encounter. But an area where I feel ultraviolet needs to really work on is the ABS calibration. It is terrible. There was a few points over here where you’re trying to break hard. And the moment this bike hits a few bumps, the ABS kicks in and then suddenly you have no brakes at all. That calibration really needs to work. It caught a lot of riders off guard, including me. And it’s quite hairy when you want full braking power and suddenly you don’t have anything. So, the lever just goes dead. And that’s something that I didn’t appreciate. But apart from that, in terms of the bite and progression of the brakes, those are quite good. And I’m talking about both the front and the rear brake. Both of them work quite well. The four-step traction control and dynamic stability control add a layer of safety and so does switchable dual channel ABS. And another area where the bike works very well is the ride quality. As far as ride quality is concerned, it is much better than the bikes like the F77 or even the F77 Super Street. As you can see, you have a longer travel for your suspension at the front and at the rear. In fact, you have 170 mm of travel at the front and rear. Now, we hit a few bumps in potholes, very few of them around here in Karnataka. And over those, the bike remains quite composed. So, the ability of the suspension to absorb these bumps and undulation is quite good. Overall, the ride is firm but not jarring in any way. That said, a proper road test on poor roads will give us a better understanding of how well the suspension works. Now, while the ultraviolet X47 has been pretty impressive in this short stint, there are a few issues that need to be addressed. First of all, I do not like the fact that I cannot lock the flap for the charging socket. We live in India and at times people are quite fidgety around motorcycles especially when they are quite curious. So I’m a little wary about the fact that somebody could try and open the flap when the bike is locked and probably fiddle around with the socket. That is something that the UV should have taken care of and probably provided an electromagnetic lock of some sort to ensure that the flap cannot be opened. Secondly, the ABS really needs work. It feels quite intrusive and depending on the modes in fact there should have been ability to dial down or dial up the ABS intervention levels. Lastly, a lot of people will still have to consider the fact that this is an electric motorcycle. So, what is the charging situation in the city or the town that they live in must be taken into consideration. All right, to sum up the Ultraviolet X47. Well, I had a good time riding this motorcycle and I can finally say that there’s a motorcycle from Ultraviolet that you can ride every day. I can think about easily commuting on this motorcycle going touring as well if I had the charging infrastructure. The onboard charger is quite a nifty feature and something that you should opt for when you buy this motorcycle because it saves you the hassle of carrying a portable charger around. On the whole, even the fit and finish, the quality, the design, everything makes it quite appealing. And to top it all, the feature list is quite exhaustive. That said, you have to keep in mind that for the bigger battery size, you have to pay a lot more money. You also have to pay extra for the camera and that is something that you have to factor in. Now, these are really nice and fancy features, but it does give the bike a futuristic appeal. So, if you’re in the market to change the way you commute on a motorcycle and you want a motorcycle that is quite quite appealing and at the same time has the fundamentals in place, then this is something that you should be really thinking about.
The Ultraviolette X-47 is here, and BikeWale brings you an in-depth review of this all-new electric motorcycle. In this video, we take a close look at its design, performance, features, ride quality, and real-world usability to tell you everything you need to know. From acceleration and handling to charging time and battery range, we cover it all.
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The bike gets 170mm suspension travel, 30kW/40bhp electric motor and two battery sizes, 7.1kWh and 10.3kWh. There’s radar tech and a number of other features. The question is, does it deliver on that promise. Rishabh Bhaskar brings us a quick review.
Host: Rishabh Bhaskar
DOP: Aatman Singh
Editor: Tejesh Gurav
Producer: Rishabh Bhaskar
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