Around a year ago Curtiss started a crowdfunding campaign to build a flagship electric motorcycle. With $266k in working capital they've been hard at work on the Zeus and some new pictures of the prototype have recently surfaced. Its certainly a novel design, which wont come cheap as its expected to start around $60,000. However Curtiss claims its 140kW motor gives it a 0-60 time of 2.1 seconds and can travel 280 miles on a single charge.
I would be highly skeptical about spending that kind of money on an unknown company.
You're better off waiting for one of the many well respected and proven bike makers to release a flagship electric bike than this.
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