The extremely anticipated debut machine from Curtiss Motorbike is right here. Promoting for $120,000, with 120 examples being constructed, The 1 is the most recent brainchild of manufacturing customized genius Matt Chambers, CEO of Curtiss Motorbike.
The quantity 120 wasn’t chosen by chance. It displays the a hundred and twentieth anniversary of the founding of Curtiss Motorbike by Glenn Hammond Curtiss. In fact, the unique Curtiss marque closed store in 1911, although not till after Curtiss constructed a 4.4-liter V8 motorbike that hit a high velocity of over 136 mph with the corporate proprietor aboard.
Chambers revived the lapsed model in 2016 when the Accomplice Motors identify turned an economically untenable proposition. Somewhat than a V8 gracing the brand new Curtis, Chambers partnered with Zero Bikes to provide a premium electrical motorbike.
In response to Curtiss, The 1 has a number of “firsts” to earn its nom de plume:
- First to characteristic completely centered building (Curtiss has an Axis Centered Design patent)
- First to ever be really designed and constructed from the inside-out
- First with geometric and ergonomic adjustability
- First to be precision-machined from aircraft-grade billet aluminum and titanium
- First to characteristic a full immersion, liquid-cooled battery pack (Curtiss claims “thermal administration expertise yields best-in-industry effectivity with utility to all types of battery-based electrification”)
- First proprietary a battery/radiator/spine singularity
- First to be designed for radical scale
As has been the case with earlier Curtiss designs, The 1 options an unique chassis and suspension. This time, nevertheless, it surrounds a 217-horsepower Axial Flux motor and a Totally-Immersed Curtiss Energy Hex battery. Claimed vary is 120 miles on the freeway and 75 miles within the metropolis—an sudden twist of vary dominance within the EV world. Once we check The 1, we can be to see if these vary numbers replicate real-world using.
Curtiss Motorbike is accepting reservations for The 1, with anticipated supply as quickly as Spring 2024. Traders might take part, as CMOT is an OTC inventory. The present inventory value is 0.1557 per share, giving Curtiss Motorbike a market cap of $7.405 million.
