I'll repeat what I always say about this.
Until Honda announces an electric motorcycle for the masses I'll hold my horses.
Honda has been working on electric vehicles for more than two decades now. While they have built a number of hybrids (cars) and the intriguing Clarity, the only two wheeled vehicle they've built is the Raccoon electric-assisted bicycle. It's old proven technology and as we speak Chinese factories are churning out cheap rip-offs by the hundred.
There are plenty of skilled enthusiasts and ingenious companies out there trying their hands at the electric vehicle game but we have to admit that their whole budget is probably what Honda puts in designing handgrips for their bikes or cigarette lighters for their cars.
If Honda thinks the technology isn't ready, the technology isn't ready.
Pushing a new technology too early can do irreparable image damages.
For example FIAT sold electric powered cars to city of Turin back in the '90s. These cars cost almost four times as much as the regular gasoline version and had inferior performances when compared to the Baker Electric of the '20s.
Vectrix sold electric scooter to the city of Milan a couple of years ago. These scooter were bought without the usual rigorous trials associated with police motorcycles and turned out to be duds, being unreliable, unsuited to Milan roads (potholes aplenty) and their batteries don't hold the charge. They were taken out of service and put in storage while Vectrix sorts the bugs out.
Things like these rightly turn people against electric vehicles.
There's nothing wrong with trying new roads but let's not rush things too much in the name of progress, environment or whatever.
And don't believe all the snake oil salesmen.
