Zero Electric MX Bike for Special Forces

Pretty cool looking. The Bad Boy Buggy effect for the SF guys in Afganistan - slipping up on al Qaeda hajjies.



http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/press-releases/may-08-2013-mmx-military-motorcycle.html

 

Pssh. Where are the rockets?

 

Man, that thing's mean looking!!

 

Another electric vehicle that failed sell to the public directly so they sell to the military which is selling it to the public by proxy

 

Eh, I think it's actually a pretty decent use of the technology.

 

Are there a lot of places to plug in and recharge in the middle of the f'kin desert? It's not like you can just grab some gas from, well, almost anything when yours runs out in the middle of an op.....
Cheers, Lee S.

 

In all honesty, those guys get just about whatever they ask for. They don't go through normal purchasing channels. They don't have to bid things out. They have their own (massive) budget without much oversight. If they're getting a silent electric dirtbike then they must have a need for one.

 

"cannot engage enemy! must charge bike first!"

 

Genius, really.
Battery runs down, you abandon the bike and it needs to be replaced.
Recurring sales=$$.

 

They need to give those pieces of crap to the enemy and then chase em till they run out of battery.

 

I can't picture the SF needing even close to a 90 mile charge range. They do everything fast.

-jim

 

some of their patrols are much longer (round trip) especially in the "frontier" type mini bases that a lot of them operate out of.

 

So, you use conventional vehicles to ferry the guys and the bikes out to near the target, then offload and send in the stealth ninjas.

-jim

 

Oh yay! Saving the world and the environment at the same time.

 

so basically each expedition would look like a weekend hare scramble racer.

 

Seems like an upgrade over a KLR650.

 

I don't really think saving the environment would be high on the priority list, but in the right scenario (obviously not every scenario), I can definitely see the benefits of using an electric vehicle over a gas powered one. It's quiet, generates less heat, and if it's sealed correctly, I bet you can submerge it and it will still work.

Also, if you guys read the article, it has modular power packs. You don't need charging stations. Just change them and charge the old ones later...

 

"Time out! Time out!! I've got to change my power-packs."

 

Is that any different than having to stop for gas?

 

Running out of gas just seems more manly, that's all.