E-MOTORCYCLE PROJECT pushes battery boundaries

For Triumph's TE-1 project, new materials and cell technologies target greater energy density and overall performance. Williams Advanced Engineering's CEO explains.

Leveraging its experience in motor-racing technology, hypercars and jet fighters, Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) is playing a key role in a developing a new high-performance battery system aimed at one of mobility's most package-critical, mass-intensive and promising vehicle applications: electric motorcycles.

The project is a partnership with the U.K.'s Triumph Motorcycles, electric-drives specialist Integral Powertrain, and the University of Warwick Manufacturing Group. It is supported by the British government's Innovate program. The project aims to “generate technological innovation for future motorcycles,” said WAE's CEO Craig Wilson, in an interview with SAE's Automotive Engineering.