This Student Team’s Electric Superbike Could Make The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R Look Slow

Electric Superbike Twente is a student racing team from the Netherlands which has built its fourth-generation electric racing bike: Delta EX. The bike has been in development for a year and flaunts performance that puts it in the league of sportsbikes.

The Delta EX is powered by a liquid-cooled 170kW PMAC (Permanent Magnet AC) motor that puts out an astounding 150kW (203PS) and 170Nm which results in 800 Nm on the rear wheel. This bike is capable of breaching the 300kmph mark and can sprint from nought to 100kmph in under three seconds. The motor is paired to a liquid-cooled 13.5kWh modular Li-Po battery pack, consisting of 576 cells that weighs 80kg.

If you have been drawing similarities between the Electric Superbike Twente Delta EX and the Suter MMX 500, you wouldn’t be the first. The Delta EX’s bodywork has been taken from the two-stroke supersport. That said, the steel trellis frame has been custom developed for the brand by Bakker Framebouw, a reputed company in the business since the 1970s.

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The Delta EX sports equally impressive hardware too. Suspension components include top-of-the-line Ohlins fork with ceramic reinforced carbon tubes and Ohlins TTX GP monoshock. Braking is taken care of by UK-based HEL Performance Parts’ four-piston radial caliper machined from a single piece. Twente has even equipped the bike with a Marchesini forged aluminum front wheel and PVM Magnesium rear wheel.

The Electric Superbike Twente created this motorcycle with the help of over 70 partner companies which provided various financial and service support. In fact, the team has already begun working on a new motor aimed to make MotoGP motorcycles a thing of the past.

With many parts of the world still under the lockdown, the Electric Superbike Twente team won’t be able to take it to a competitive event till the end of this year. However, if and when it does, it sure will tempt petrolheads to take these silent machines more seriously. At the moment, the team hasn’t divulged any plans to commercialise the project.