Nicolas Goubert, executive director🐻 of the new FIM MotoE World Cup, has pledged that the new electric bike class will be able to race flat-out from start to finish during its inaugural 2019 season.

Monitoring battery life is one of the biggest concerns surrounding the new generation of ꦇelectric machines.

But with MotoE competitors all running the same Energica motorcycles, the race distance at each circui🦂t (equating to roughly 15mins) has been calculated so that ♓battery capacity is eliminated from the equation.

"For sure, we want them to ꦯhave full power from the first lap to the last, whatever the rider,"⛎ Goubert said.

"They won’t all use the same energy, but we want to make sure that the race distance is short෴ enough so that nobody will have any [battery] trouble.

"We have only two test riders, so we have a race distance in mind based on the ‘worst’ rider - meaning𓃲 the one that uses the most energy.

ꦫ"But if we find out from the 18 racers that we have to shorten distances again, then we’ll do it to make sure everyone has what they need.

"We don’t want riders having to ‘control’ their power or try to learn another way of🐭 riding."

The best lap time during MotoE's rain-interrupted inaugural test session at Jerez last month 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:was a 1m 50.265s by ✃Bradley Smith.

That was 3.5s of🦩f the official Moto3 race lap record, but Goubert predicts the 160hp/270km/h MotoE machines should be a m♒atch for the much lighter 250cc petrol class at least once during the five-round season.

"In terms of lap-times with the other categories, the besꩵt results we’ve found [in private testing] so far were in Austria, which is a high-speed circuit," Goubert said.

🥂"After a 45-minute test, Loris [Capirossi] was making times that were 0.5s away from the Moto3 lap record.  So I think the MotoE race riders will be at the same pace as Moto3 there.

"It won’t be the 🐼same at the twisty circuits, where the average speed is quite low. That’s because of the weight and being unable to take advantage of the higher average spe🐷ed. It’s hard to say how much difference there will be at the moment."

The Frenchman added: "The most positive thing [at Jerez] was the reaction of the riders. All of them have be🐬en very positive and the bikes have worked very well, so no real issues, except for the weather!

"All through the year when we gave the production version of the bike for the MotoE demonstration laps at grands prix, riders said how easy it ♓was to ride and it's been the same here at Jer🍃ez.

"I think that's positive because it means they can still use their individual riding styles. So ܫalthough it's a bit different, it's not night and day and they are having fun just as꧋ they have fun with petrol engine bikes.

"The maximum speed is quite high because the power is there and the torque means the acceleration is good. The weight is a limiting [performance] factor because it takes long🤡er to reduce the speed and it’s different to flip the bike from side-to-side in the corners.

"But I remember Randy de Puniet riding the production bike in Le Mans and he said ‘I won’t tell you it i🧸s a light bike, but compared to what I use with a full tank in Endurance there is not a big🥀 difference’.

💎"Of course, there is no gearbox in MotoE, but you might say that in MotoGP almost everything is automat🌸ic now."

In ter🐷ms of setting up the MotoE bikes each weekend, "It'll be less complex compared to MotoGP because the guys will have limited track time - only two 30-minute practice sessions on a Friday before qualifying on Satu෴rday and a race on Sunday - and you have to consider that some weekends might have changeable weather.

"They’ll have to look at the suspension, two different power delivery modes𓆉, three engine-braking modes as well as an electric rear brake. That's enough in the time available."

Goubeꦿrt's former employer Michelin is supplying the MotoE tyres.

Helping the rider-friendly feel of the bike has been careful programming of the power curಌves.

"The bike still talks to you, like with RPM on a normal bike," 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:said Smith. "They've programmed in a power c🦋urve. I rode the more direct one and you can manage it. The mapping is nice in the wet and in the dry."

"Energica made a lot of work on the power delivery for the bike, to be easy to handle," confirmed Goubert. "With an electric engine you have a lot of torque and if you don’t ha💟ndle it properly then it might be difficult to ride.

"Energica made a great job. When Loris did the testing for us, he said that you 💃could make the bike slide and really have fun 🔜with it.

"Once I asked Loris and our test rider to ride together and try to overtake each other. They came back with a big smile, saying it was really fun and that we ༒should look on the track because there must💫 be a lot of black marks!"

With no clutch lever needed, Smith was among the riders pondering if the rear brake lever 🎐could be moved to the left 💃handlebar.

"Right now it's under discussion," Goubert said. "It's not the way we have taken, so we'll see𒁏 what they want to do. In March we'll talk about it again♍ and if all of them want it, why not?"

In terms of how the bike ran at Jerez, the only issue raised by tܫhe riders was the need to keep cooling the battery.

"That was only a problem at the test here becauꦜse we tried to fit as many sessions in as possible," Goubert said. "For example, on Friday, we had three sessions very close to each other.

"When you are using the battery on track, the temperature goes up. Then if you charge it straight away – as we had to ✃do – it goes up again. Then we rode again, came in, charged again!

"But next year we've made sure we have the time we need�ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ� to properly charge and cool the battery before they start again. So it's not a worry.

"All teams will be given the same cooling equipment but ho🧸nestly speaking we will use it only on Fridays, in between sessions. We won't need it apart from that."

The opening MotoE test of 2019 will be held back at Jerez fro🥃m Marc🌼h 13-15 and again from April 23-25. The first MotoE race takes place during the Spanish MotoGP weekend on May 5.