Taiga reservation waiting room

[Crustyolddude]

Going to hijack this thread a bit. Bombardier purchased some of Alta electric motorcycle patents couple years ago. Not sure if we will see some of this technology applied to sleds, quads, bikes etc.
the Alta MX bike can hang with 250, 450 Mx bikes. Alta (American company based near San Francisco).

https://youtu.be/J_r2zku9QHU


https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/brp-buys-alta-motors/

 

[jhurkot]

No demo...

 

[Steve D]

I was wondering about that. That's too bad but not unexpected right now. I hope they do lots of filming and such in their private testing. Honestly, I don't think anyone doubts the power and such, the only real question everyone has is about range in deep and steep, which would be hard to quantify in a short demo ride, except that everyone would see them running all day on the hill. Still sucks for this company because if it all went well, it'd be big driver of word-of-mouth marketing which is what a small company needs.

 

[T-top]

Parts supply issues as well

 

[Dakine879]

https://youtu.be/1yEmtz4ZVMM

Anyone have one of these?

I've seen these on youtube as well, i think that the whole Laird Hamilton / Robby Naish Hawaiian crew of dudes was pretty heavily involved its development of it after someone got the great idea to mesh the electric vehicle from the auto and bicycle industries and foiling crazes in the kiting/windsurfing/surfing world.

$12,000 usd ouch, i would love to have one but could never afford one.

 

[MK4TDI]

Some more info on the website about them now with some update photos.

Looks like only a 154x2.5 for the mountain sled.

https://taigamotors.ca/snowmobiles/


And here is a boring video with one out in the wild.

https://youtu.be/-e7uVojqWkI

 

[powpowpowpow]

Basically 590lbs..they have a long way to go for the mountain. Utility/trail market would be huge though and makes total sense.
Watching the videos it looks akward and bulky and can barely get the front end off the ground.
RMK 155 is 510wet and gets lighter as you ride as fuel and oil is used. By the end of the day your looking at 130lbs+ or more weight difference

 

[rmk600700]

Basically 590lbs..they have a long way to go for the mountain. Utility/trail market would be huge though and makes total sense.
Watching the videos it looks akward and bulky and can barely get the front end off the ground.
RMK 155 is 510wet and gets lighter as you ride as fuel and oil is used. By the end of the day your looking at 130lbs+ or more weight difference

agree 100% except the range will be an issue for trial as well not gonna see 200-250 mile range anytime soon IMO. Utility for ski hills and whatnot would be awesome!

 

[Quicksand]

Battery technology is coming fast, this may only be for small batteries for now(cell phones and things) but it won't be long

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/04/proton-battery-can-be-charged-in-seconds-many-times-over/

 

[Billy Boy]

I agree once the technology advances to lighter, long life span, more dependable (cold weather) batteries I can see this taking off.

 

[adamg]

Has this video been posted here? Seems new, dated April 16.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/...bile-in-the-market-is-a-remarkably-quiet-ride

 

[Electric-EVO]

Have you guys checked out the new 3D effect Taiga has on the Instagram account?

 

[JustinMan43]

Another pretty big step forward for getting these electric machines in consumers hands in the backcountry
https://new.abb.com/news/detail/703...uNMO5E0QklWT4jYdLjD-tqrmCLHvT_jMK9WB1B0VjGHRM

 

[skegpro]

Rex calls it the way it is.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/re...le-will-save-us-all-the-liberals-have-said-so

 

[jhurkot]

You know when an electric sled article references vaccines in the first sentence it’s going to be some real quality journalism.

 

[Dakine879]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...e-maker-taiga-to-go-public-via-canaccord-spac


i found out about this on an EV podcast. They were correct in their assumption that most people into powersports are not early adopters of EV vehicles.

The were 100% incorrect when they commented that "who spends $15K on a snowmobile, anyways?"

 

[moyiesledhead]

They were 100% incorrect when they commented that "who spends $15K on a snowmobile, anyways?"

Really? Been snowmobiling since 1968 and I've never spent $15000 on a sled. In fact I bought two for that price the last time.

 

[joey]

What's the best can for my new taiga?

 

[MK4TDI]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...e-maker-taiga-to-go-public-via-canaccord-spac


i found out about this on an EV podcast. They were correct in their assumption that most people into powersports are not early adopters of EV vehicles.

The were 100% incorrect when they commented that "who spends $15K on a snowmobile, anyways?"

That's 15k usd too.

 

[team dirt]

What's the best can for my new taiga?