Top Gear’s Top 9: electric motorbikes

The world is going electric and all the brands we’ve known (and loved?) for decades are changing their tunes, some pianissimo and some very loud indeed. But car brands aren’t the only ones at it. Bike manufacturers are doing similar. The success of motorcycle-passionate electric-only start-ups has greased the wheels for more established brands to get involved.

In a vision of the future, the sun bleaches down on all of our homes. Domestic battery packs get recharged by day and power our homes and vehicle by night, with no need to rely on oil, uranium and other nasties that could kill or pollute.

But it’s 2023. If you can turn your mental logic and ears off to all the reasonable criticisms of such a flawed vision, ignore phrases such as ‘lack of infrastructure’ and ‘range anxiety’ and the fear that all homes will trip the nation’s fuse box at peak demand, you might be able to appreciate these juicy two-wheeled electric things as much as us.