TRIUMPH TE-1 PROJECT E-SPEED TRIPLE
Bike SA|May 2021
There isn’t a single manufacturer in the world today which isn’t working on a future range of Electric motorcycles (rather than E-scooters or E-bicycles), but so far only two models from any of them have made it to the marketplace: Harley-Davidson’s Livewire E-Cruiser, and KTM’s Freeride E-XC off-roader.
Alan Catchcart
TRIUMPH TE-1 PROJECT E-SPEED TRIPLE

That’s alongside the range of motorcycles from perennial E-missionaries Zero, headed by its SR/F that’s widely regarded as the current performance benchmark for Electric street bikes. But now Triumph has lifted the veil over its ongoing two-year-old TE-1 Project, which it’s been working on since May 2019 with a group of specialist partners, and after being invited to the Triumph factory at Hinckley to meet each of them for an insider update on the story so far, including the relevant performance data, the result can only be described as enticing – and definitely promising.

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