Comments on: Team Agni with Rider Rob Barber Wins Inuagural TTXGP

By: Mehul Kamdar

Mehul Kamdar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:23:45 +0000

This is the future as many have pointed out. Scientists are in a race to improve battery technology and when the world’s best minds get together to do something, they will achieve it, no doubt. And Team Agni deserve congratulations for winning handsomely. All other teams also deserve to be congratulated for involving themselves in this pioneering sport.

The next TTXGP should be even more exciting. Good times are ahead!

By: pabs

pabs — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:33:47 +0000

well all a bit anti-climatic, currently it is in the hands of the scientists to give us electric gas tanks (aka batteries) that fill/discharge/store about 20 times what they do know until then its all just an excercise albeit a very interesting one

i expect that is just around the corner from everything i read then watch out the world will go to electric based transport over a couple of short years, the hard part isn’t the parts worked already such as running gear etc but rather its the battery technology thats all this is about

until then it all a bit fringe but i love to watch the development, and it just goes to show that when its time to put up some do and some don’t, pretty bikes with loud claims like motocyz running to silly top speeds on a dyno and off-bike batteries ! ! dont cut it in the real world, always better to underpromise and overdeliver

big congrats to AGNI and Ron Barber who just got on with it, 2010 should be very cool with cars joining the fray. I can’r wait to see one of the majors get involved but that’ll be a few years off

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:54:05 +0000

The problem is energy storage, you can go as fast if not faster than a ICE with an electric motor, doing so for the 40 miles of the course is another story.

That’s the interesting difference between the two types of motors historically. While with ICE the essential problem was materials and heat limiting what you could do with an engine, what electrics have is as if the problem with ICE’s was merely the size of the fuel tank. That could theorectically be solved in electrics immediately, but with a weight penalty, while the problem old ICE designs had couldn’t be solved that easily. Of course what everyone wants with electrics is not much, or no, extra weight, and they’ve made great strides with that over the past couple decades, and I’d expect they’ll make even more strides over the next decade.

I’d expect to see a “Hailwood” lap by electrics within the decade.

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:16:27 +0000

Richard Gozinya’s results are wrong!!!

Fifth fastest time and WINNER of the Open Class was Isle of Man local Chris Heath on the Electric Motorsport team from Oakland, California.

Overall team standings
1st Agni Motors (UK/India)
2nd XXL (Geramany)
3rd Brammo (Ashland, Oregon) (Pro Class 3rd place)
4th Mission Motors (San Fransisco, California) (Pro Class 4th place)
5th Electric Motorsport (Oakland, California) (Open Class 1st place)
6th Bare foot (Ashland, Oregon) (Open Class 2nd place)

Go Bay Area!!!
Go West Coast…..

By: laurent

laurent — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:25:15 +0000

QrazyQat
The problem is energy storage, you can go as fast if not faster than a ICE with an electric motor, doing so for the 40 miles of the course is another story.

There is a great deal of research being done in that area and I’m sure well see significant improvement pretty soon.