Lightning LS-218 World's Fastest
Motorcycle
For the first time in history, a major motorsports competition was won by a vehicle powered solely by solar energy. The Lightning Motorcycle Race team competed in and won the EPower/TTXGP race during the MotoGP weekend at Laguna Seca in July 2012, on solar power alone. The same bike, powered by solar, also set a new land speed record at El Mirage in November 2012. Lightning SB2 SuperBikes demonstrate that alternatively fueled vehicles can compete and win in current competition with currently available technology. Lightning Motorcycle’s CEO Richard Hatfield put this theory into a succinct statement; “Solar energy-fueled vehicles are not just a theoretical concept to be realized sometime in the distant future, but a reality today that can compete for head to head with gasoline-powered vehicles”.

FRONT SUSPENSION

  • RaceTech fork (upgrade option: Öhlins FGRT inverted fork) 
  • NIX30 cartridge internals, TiN surface treatment, billet aluminum radial caliper mountings 
  • Fully adjustable spring preload, compression, and rebound damping

BATTERY PACK


Options

  • 380V 12 kWh battery pack(Range of 100-120 miles per charge) 
  • 380V 15 kWh battery pack(Range of 120-150 miles per charge) 
  • 380V 20 kWh battery pack(Range of 160-180 miles per charge

WHEELS AND TIRES


Front

Lightning forged aluminum 3.5″ x 17″, 120/70ZR17


Rear

Lightning forged aluminum 6.0″ x 17″, 190/55ZR17

SUPERBIKE MOTOR

  • IPM liquid cooled 150kw+ 10,500 rpm electric motor                                                                                                                                  (200 hp and 168 ft·lbs of torque)               

REAR SUSPENSION

  • Billet aluminum swingarm with linear 
  • Öhlins TTX36 Shock and linkage system 
  • Adjustment for preload, ride height, high and low-speed compression and rebound 

BRAKES

  • Dual Brembo 320mm disc; Brembo radial-mount forged 4-piston calipers 
  • 2 Brembo T-Drive 320mm Fully-Floating Rotors 
  • 2 Brembo GP4-RX CNC Radial Calipers 
The Lightning SuperBike is equally suited to track days or weekend rides on your favorite back roads. The Lightning SuperBike became the world’s fastest production electric motorcycle with the SCTA official World Record of 215.960 mph and a best-timed run of 218.637 mph at Bonneville during Speedweek in August. 
Our SuperBike also holds the world land speed record for the fastest production motorcycle, electric or otherwise. Making it not only the fastest electric bike available but the fastest bike available (period). Oh yeah, did we mention that this record was set using all solar energy? We can do a record-setting run for about $.08. The SuperBikes also have quite the record of circuit wins. 
FIM EPower championships at Le Mans 24 Hours, TTXGP wins, all run on electricity.Lightning Motorcycle has partnered with Race Tech for track ready suspension development, and every Lightning SuperBike is factory equipped with track mapping data acquisition. The Lightning Electric SuperBike has a usable freeway speed range of over 100 miles and a combined city and highway EPA range of over 150 miles and a top speed potential of over 218 mph.

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