A tale of two wheels
Back in 2017, way before the electricfelix blog existed I experienced the future first-hand.
An Energica Eva powered ride to the beach with a Fastned session on the way home. It was a fifteen minute charging break that got me addicted.
Fastned back in 2017
A 50kW charger was still fast. The Energica bike with just a 11,7kWh battery pack was the first of it’s kind to be able to handle a CCS charging session (I got 19kW average speed charging to 82% SoC or 4,5kWh added in 14 minutes).
I’ve just translated the story of my first electric motorcycle experience here. It gives you access to how I was thinking four years ago, the most pure form of looking back at my electric excitement on two wheels. Lots of adventures followed.
#Electric Night Ride
In the summer of 2018 I was an office clerk (nine to five, Mon to Fri) for the first time in my life. I challenged myself to ride the Energica Eva on Saturday from Amsterdam to Paris, to participate in the #ENR in the early morning of Sunday, only to ride back to Amsterdam all Sunday afternoon and night.
Monday morning: back in the office. I had no blog yet. The experience is all in my head still. Some people documented the ENR on YouTube.
#Electric Night Ride 2019: Stuttgart
In 2019 I realized I couldn’t let these stories just live on in my head. This blog was born. The very first written report on any of my EV roadtrips was the road to Stuttgart for the Electric Night Ride in the summer of 2019.
Fast forward to summer 2021
A summer with movement, events! Will there be a new #ElectricNightRide in Luxembourg?
For now I settled on joining the electrified rally, last weekend around Apeldoorn. My first time trying the ZERO SR/S thanks to Gert-Jan. Who runs electricmotorbikes.nl
In street mode, the power was enough to still send shivers down my spine. I missed it! (In the meantime I sold my classic Honda TransAlp, I couldn’t handle going for petrol anymore).
Some testing of course had to be done, if you tried the report on my ZERO SR/F ride to Stuttgart you found out about the 6kW charging I’ve used extensively. Gert-Jan was already telling me about the 12kW AC charging upgrades back then, which he put into practice on the new SR/S. I tested it, of course.
Find the video charging on a 22 kW public AC point in the Netherlands below.
If you’ve been following me longer I might’ve introduced you to Hugo, an old friend. He was the one that told me to get my license, years ago when I was going through some breakup struggles. A decision with many consequences. Finally I could give some back. Because I now invited him to his first electric motorcycle ride, the rally.
The one and only, Hugo. On the left. And Jan, the founder of https://electrified.online and yes, we’re both Schuko charging at 2kW (even though I arrived here with 80% SoC after riding roughly 50km).
For the next rally we’re participating in, I’m looking for you. Yes you, in the audience. Because what we were missing was somebody on the back, reading the map for us. Please get in touch if you’re up for this in a future event.
Riding with champions
It wasn’t your casual rally either.
Late in the day we arrived at a traffic light. In front of us:
taycan time
and this one right behind (yes, the e-tron GT)
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And if you’re really fast, this Monday there’s an EV Ning Ride coming up with many electric motorcycles!