The first all-electric motorcycle to wear the Triumph name has turned an important corner today, as the TE-1 prototype is officially handed over to the factory to commence live shakedown testing.
The TE-1 project is formed of a collaboration between Triumph in the UK, Williams Advanced Engineering, and WMG at the University of Warwick. While the bike is not a production model that consumers will be able to go out and buy in years to come, it is a testbed for future technologies and allows the three groups to gain experience of this new sector of two-wheeled transport.This milestone marks the end of the collaboration stage of the TE-1 project, with WMG and Williams now officially handing the bike over to Triumph to allow the Hinckley factory to get to work doing what they do best, live testing of the motorcycle.
Many of the elements that the team from Hinckley will now undertake will be familiar to them, although as this is the first electric motorcycle to wear the Triumph name, much of it will be new. The first list of tasks includes calibrating the various rider controls of the bike, including throttle mapping, power, and torque mapping, and checking over the bike’s onboard systems.
After that, the really exciting work begins, with the bike’s handling, acceleration, braking (including regenerative braking), traction control, and wheelie control all set to be checked on a closed circuit. visordown - link - Simon Hancocks - link - Triumph - link - more like this - link
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