For reference, the Corbin electric motorcycle, built in San Jose in the 70's, had a top speed of 70 mph and a range of 70 miles. This produces a Billlls performance index (r) of 4900 vs 6000 for the Roskva.
I suppose a 20% performance improvement is nice for 40 years of engineering effort, but I still wonder what the number would look like if we divided the (range x top speed) by the price. Graphite is not cheap.
This project was done by college students, which means worst case it cost tuition and board for 5 at a Norwegian university for one semester. A bargain compared to the Volt which costs you and me a cool quarter mil for each one put on the road. I've seen two of these on my daily commute, neither one of which was on fire. I've also seen a couple of Bentlys, which rounds the total out to an even million bucks in rolling stock. I'm pretty sure I had no financial interest at all in the Bentlys.
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