Martin Eberhard on Board of BRD Motorcycles

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http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/10/eberhard-brd-motorcycles/

Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard has joined the advisory board for BRD Motorcycles, a San Francisco-based electric motorcycle manufacturer that makes some incredibly mean two-wheeled machines.

 

[TEG]

Tesla Co-Founder Joins Board of Electric Motorcycle Maker | Autopia | Wired.com

..."they treat safety as a religion.”...

Making high performance motorcycles and safety don't exactly go hand in hand, at least compared to making safe cars.

Motorcycle safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2006, 13.10 cars out of 100,000 ended up in fatal crashes. The rate for motorcycles is 72.34 per 100,000 registered motorcycles.[SUP] [/SUP] Motorcycles also have a higher fatality rate per unit of distance travelled when compared with automobiles. Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of a fatal crash is 35 times greater than a passenger car[SUP]. [/SUP][SUP]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety#cite_note-nhtsa-810-990-1[/SUP] In 2004, figures from the UK Department for Transport indicated that motorcycles have 16 times the rate of serious injuries compared to cars...

I like the quote on their youtube demo:

..."[Professional stunt rider on a closed course. Do not attempt without a good lawyer]"...

 

[AnOutsider]

Do we know what, if any, success he had at VW?

 

[Vern Padgett]

Motorcycles are inherently violently unsafe.

An electric motorcycle would be 10x that.

I had an 883 cc Harley-Davidson Sportster. The smallest bike they made.

Incredible torque.

Switch that to equivalent electric, and absolutely deadly.