{"id":125410,"date":"2021-07-23T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/da-vinci-dc100-a-self-balancing-electric-motorcycle-that-will-follow-you-around"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:24:35","slug":"da-vinci-dc100-a-self-balancing-electric-motorcycle-that-will-follow-you-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/da-vinci-dc100-a-self-balancing-electric-motorcycle-that-will-follow-you-around","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci DC100, a self-balancing electric motorcycle that will follow you around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lmsfw88V7d4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s Da Vinci Dynamics has launched its DC100, a high-performance electric streetbike with an impressive 250-mile (400 km) NEDC range, and some wacky \u201crobotic\u201d tricks, including the alleged ability to self-balance and follow you around.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got ourselves a bit of a kitchen sinker here; Da Vinci has thrown all sorts of features at this one. But even some of the basic specs are a tad elusive. For starters, while it makes a peak of 135 horsepower, putting it very much in the \u201cfast electric\u201d category, the company says it runs \u201ca smart control system that seamlessly integrates multiple different motors.\u201d Who the what now? Multiple motors? A separate press release then states it\u2019s actually 137 horsepower, running through a hub motor.<\/p>\n<p>Peak torque is listed at a ludicrous 850 Nm (627 lb-ft), but then hub motors often have wild torque specs; witness the outrageous <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/motorcycles\/verge-ts-electric-motorbike-hubless\/\">Verge TS<\/a>, with a hub motor that doesn\u2019t even need a middle in it to break 1000 Nm (738 lb-ft). The DC100 will sprint from 0\u2013100 km\/h in somewhere between 3\u20134 seconds, so crazy torque or no crazy torque, a well-ridden gixxer will still see it off at the lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s Da Vinci Dynamics has launched its DC100, a high-performance electric streetbike with an impressive 250-mile (400 km) NEDC range, and some wacky \u201crobotic\u201d tricks, including the alleged ability to self-balance and follow you around. We\u2019ve got ourselves a bit of a kitchen sinker here; Da Vinci has thrown all sorts of features at this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}