{"id":18656,"date":"2022-03-28T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:04:28","slug":"can-am-electric-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18656","title":{"rendered":"Can-Am teases new line of electric motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can-Am began life 50 years ago making two-wheelers \u2014 specifically, enduro and motocross bikes that captured their first national trophies just a year after going into serial production. In 1987, parent company Bombardier took Can-Am motos off the market, the brand itself out of action until 2006 when BRP dusted it off for the BRP line of ATVs. Now we know Can-Am as a maker of ATVs as well as three-wheelers like the Ryker and Spyder, and side-by-sides. It will be back in the two-wheeled game in a couple of years, a teaser video announcing a new line of four Can-Am electric motorcycles<\/a> launching in 2024.<\/p>\n

We don’t have much to go on other than silhouettes of the bikes and a trail of commercial moves BRP has made in the past few years. BRP bought some<\/a> of the assets and intellectual property of electric dirt bike startup Alta Motors<\/a> in 2019. Observers suspected BRP would turn Alta Motors’ work<\/a> into powertrains for recreational vehicles like snowmobiles or jet skis. It revealed three electric concepts<\/a> later the same year, one of them an electric Ryker three-wheeler. The following year saw a BRP patent application<\/a> for a “method for assembling motorcycles of a family of motorcycles and corresponding motorcycles.” The paperwork described models sharing a common frame, battery<\/a>, and electric motor in the swingarm, with artwork showing how a several types of bike could be built around that core.<\/p>\n

The naked street bike in the teaser video that we get the best view of has clear ties to the patent drawing in the upright bars, single seat, single-sided swingarm, and multi-spoke wheels. There’s at least one new feature \u2014 its tablet-like cockpit display. Based on the less fulsome views of the other models, we’re suspecting a range that includes an enduro, a bobber, and perhaps some sort of meaty tourer. We’re two years away from any retail offering, but with Can-Am considering this the 50th anniversary year of its first bikes, we think more announcements are likely soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can-Am began life 50 years ago making two-wheelers \u2014 specifically, enduro and motocross bikes that captured their first national trophies just a year after going into serial production. In 1987, parent company Bombardier took Can-Am motos off the market, the brand itself out of action until 2006 when BRP dusted it off for the BRP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}